Oysters

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an oyster is usaully very mature. protandric,means the first year the spawn as males.a female oyster may shoot out thousands of eggs.meanwhile a male shoots out thosands of spurm.20 year life span.Oysters as a baby have a stage in it's life were it can do something were the oysters stick toegether in one pile.
 * 1. What is an oyster and what are the stages of an oyster's life?**

lives in water between 8 and 25 feet deep in the bay. oyster can filter the whole bay in three to four days.but do to theloss of of oysters it now takes a year. The oyster is small and has a round shell.You see the oyster has two layers on its shell it has a hard shell for protection in the time of need.and the oysters have smaller shells inside which is the second layer for comfort.the shape of this animal is pretty awsome when you study how important it is to the environment.
 * 2. Describe the three-dimensional structure of an oyster reef and explain why oysters benefit from this shape.**

it gives other animals shelteroyters happen to be bioendacators (a organism that shows it shows that the environment is healthy.a american oyter is the best of all oytersat being a bioendicatorhabitats are made so amazing from these oysters that they so much things that they make in these habitats for otheranmals
 * 3. Explain why oyster reefs are important habitats for many species and identify the species that inhabit and rely on the oyster reefs.**

they filter water.oysters just happen to be the indactors of the chesepeake bay which means the other animals rely on the oysters. oyster can filter up to 1.3 gallons of water.oysters are very important to the bay they are health and great for the bay they make such good habitats for the other animalsthat why these animals can be so important to the chesepeake bay.All of you or everyone might want to ask but why are these strange animals so good for environment and siocety? because they are so helpful to the environment,they are good animals to study,and are some rock'in animals.
 * 4. Explain why oysters are important to the health of the Bay?**.

many etuary rely on many oyters.oysters help many euatary by filtering water that is why these oysters are so important.Also it just happens that there are so many all though they are becoming less oysters.So many oyters do this kind of thing like:American oyster,eastern oyster etc. So now that we know that oysters help nature in the water you can stop killing them.
 * 5. How are oysters adapted to their environment?**


 * 6. How has the growth of human population negatively impacted the oyster population?**
 * humans eat oysters and we eat quicker then they can re-produse**


 * 7. DIET: carnivore.**
 * Oysters often eat larvae-(a short tiny small egg).**
 * Every person should want to be intrested in what this great animal does for these great waters.**
 * That they shouldn't pullout these waters and they should not feed these oysters on garbage and on trash that makes these animal eat that garbage.Which means that they will die and we need them to filter the water.**