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Oceanography Field Trip-Malibu Lagoon
Please behave responsibly and professionally as a representative of CALS High School. Follow directions from the chaperones and encourage your classmates to do the same. Your invitation to future field trips depends on it!
Find the answers to these questions on the interpretive signs in the picnic area.
The Restless Coast
1.
What is the ground on which you stand made up of?
2.
What is one of the most active seismic zones in the world right near here?
3.
This part of the state is creeping northward at _____________.
The Fish Fetching Birds
4.
One type of Cormorant is called the pelagic Cormorant. Where is the pelagic zone?
5.
What is something unique about the Cormorant?
Can Magic Solve the Litter Problem?
6.
Name three ways that trash can harm animals in Malibu Lagoon.
Malibu Climate: From Moderate to Extreme
7.
When does the Pacific Ocean bring the wettest storms of the year?
8.
Winter cold weather tends to come from what direction to Malibu Lagoon?
A Desert in Disguise
9. What type of desert is a coastal lagoon? Why?
Whale Watching
10.
Is now a good time to spot Grey Whales?
11.
When do they migrate South?
Pacific Shore Birds
12.
Name three common birds you may see today and look for them.
The Mysterious Sea
13.
What is Earth’s largest single environment? Why sis so little known about it?
The Wealth of Wetlands
14.
The wetlands are described as brackish. What does this mean?
Please explore the area with your chaperone once you complete the front side of the worksheet. You have until
11:30 to explore and complete your group investigation. At 11:30 meet back at the picnic tables for a presentation from the Mean Green Team followed by lunch. The map on the back of this sheet will help you navigate. You may go on path A to Malibu Lagoon Beach, path B to Malibu Lagoon, or path C to the Adamson
House and Surfrider Beach. Remember to complete your investigation and be back by 11:30.