ANSWERS: 1 a; 2 c; 3 a; 4 d; 5 a & b (c is found down south, and d is not a real mussel, but we think it would be a good name for a mussel); 6 a (Historically, most of the islands of the Connecticut River in CT were also named by river mile—e.g., Six Mile Island, Eight Mile Island, Ten Mile Island. Haddam Island [Thirty Mile Island] was named for its distance from Hartford, not Old Saybrook. Most have been renamed—e.g., Nott Island, Brockway Island, Eustacia Island.); 7 c (This is an organism that lives in a colony called the magnificent bryozoan. Each one of the “dots” in the gelatinous mass is an individual animal that feeds like a barnacle. The colony attaches to branches, pilings, etc., and is an indicator of good water quality.); 8 b; 9 c (The river in Old Saybrook and Haddam flows north with every tidal cycle. Erving is located downstream of First Light Power’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Facility, and when it pumps river water up to the top of the mountain for storage and subsequent electrical generation, the river in the area flows backwards—to the north.); 10 Musk turtle, but also known as a Stinkpot turtle (This species has a habit of climbing trees and unintentionally falling into canoes passing below. Note the carpet of green algae on its shell.); 11 c (Dolly Varden is the name of a trout found in the West and named after a character in a Charles Dickens novel.); 12 d (This is also the name of a small village near Pittsburg, NH. The waterfall there stopped them. “What waterfall?” you might ask, if you have visited this village. The falls that were tall enough to stop Atlantic salmon were blasted out of existence by the logging industry to expedite the passage of cut timber.); 13 a (Often erroneously referred to as eel grass.); 14 c; 15 a, b, c, & d; 16 b; 17 c; 18 a & c; 19 a; 20 d; 21 d; 22 c.
