1. What is the proper name for silver salmon?
2. Name three things juvenile salmonids need to live.
A. food,
warm water, light
B. food,
cover, cold, clear, water
C. cold
water, light, rocks
3. The scientific name for salmonid
is "oncorhyncus" -
What does this mean?
A. crabby
fish
B. colorful
fish
C. hooked-nose
4. What does anadromous mean?
A. Lives
in both fresh and salt water and returns to spawn in fresh water
B. Lives
only in fresh water
C. Lives
in fresh water but spawns in salt water.
5. What is the largest species of salmon?
A. Sockeye
B. King
or Chinook salmon
C. Chum
6. Out of 1000 eggs, about 1 adult salmon will live to return to spawn.
7. Most salmon spend the greatest part of their life in the ocean.
8. What is another name for pink salmon?
9. All salmonids die after spawning
A. True
B. False
C. They
might not if no one steps on them
10. What are the two types of stream habitats used by salmonids
A. Pools
and currents
B. Pools
and riffles
C. Upstream
and downstream
11. What are two species of trout
that are salmonids?
A. Steelhead
and cutthroat
B. Chinook
and steelhead
C. Chinook
and cutthroat
12. What is another name for
chum salmon?
A. Dog
B. Cat
C. Reds
13. A newly-hatched salmonid
with a yolk-sac is called?
A. Fry
B. Alevin
C. Salmon
14. Name the five species of salmon.
A. Chinook,
coho, pink, sockeye, chum
B. King,
steelhead, pink, chum, cutthroat
C. Cutthroat,
king, red, chum, dogfish
15. What is the hole in the stream
gravel where the female lays her eggs called?
A. green
B. nest
C. Redd
16. Name three threats to adult salmon living in the ocean?
A. seagulls,
pollution, sea lions
B. dolphins,
nets, sea lions
C. pollution,
sea lions, nets
17. What two species of salmon rear in estuaries and spend only a few days in streams as fry?
A. Pink
and chum
B. Sockeye
and chum
C. Chinook
and coho
18. Juvenile coho live in streams for up to 2 years
A. True
B. False
C. Maybe,
if they can't swim yet
19. Fry change into smolts prior to migration to the sea?
20. Which species of salmon 'rears' in a lake?