Terms: shrimp
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1. Shrimp - Northern Shrimp (NOAA)
   Provides an article and a drawing. 2-00

2. Mantis Shrimp (ChesapeakeBay.net)
   Describes the marine crustacean, which is not really a shrimp. Known for its deadly "'mantis-like" front claws. "Smashers" have the striking force of a .22 caliber bullet and can break aquarium glass or do great damage to a hand. "Spearers" can use their front claws as powerful spears that move faster than the human eye can see. 5-01

3. Mantis Shrimp (Blueboard.com)
   Describes the marine crustacean, which is not really a shrimp. Known for its deadly "'mantis-like" front claws. "Smashers" have the striking force of a .22 caliber bullet and can break aquarium glass or do great damage to a hand. "Spearers" can use their front claws as powerful spears that move faster than the human eye can see. Shows the claws of each, as well as the overall structure of the animal.
   "The mantis shrimps are also world-renowned as having the world's most sophisticated vision. According to Dr Justin Marshall, the stomatopod eye 'contains 16 different types of photoreceptors (12 for colour analysis, compared to our 3 cones), colour filters and many polarisation receptors, making it by far the world's most complex retina.' Mantis shrimps can thus see polarized light and 4 colors of UV (ultraviolet) light, and they may also be able to distinguish up to 100,000 colors (compared to the 10,000 seen by human beings)." 1-02

4. Mantis Shrimp (Woodward)
   Describes the marine crustacean, which is not really a shrimp. Known for its deadly "'mantis-like" front claws. "Smashers" have the striking force of a .22 caliber bullet and can break aquarium glass or do great damage to a hand. "Spearers" can use their front claws as powerful spears that move faster than the human eye can see. 5-01

5. 09-10-02 Tropical Forests 100 Times More Economic Than Alternatives (Ananova.com)
   "A study has found wild ecosystems are around 100 times more economic than ones converted to human use." "The study by the American Association for the Advancement of Science also found half of an ecosystem's economic value is lost when it is converted to human use."
   
   "The case studies looked at included the logging of a Malaysian tropical forest and a tropical forest in Cameroon converted to agriculture and commercial plantations. They also looked at a mangrove system in Thailand converted for shrimp farming, a Canadian marsh drained for agriculture and a Philippine coral reef dynamited for fishing."

6. -06-12-06 Texas Town Still in Ruins Nine Months After Rita (ABC News)
   "Nine months after Rita plowed into Sabine Pass on its way through East Texas, there's not much left for another hurricane to destroy in this community of shrimpers, port hands and refinery workers. The town is still littered with FEMA trailers, piles of debris and gutted houses." 06-06

7. Fertilizers Creating a Huge "Dead Zone" in the Gulf (MSNBC News)
   "The nation's corn crop is fertilized with millions of pounds of nitrogen-based fertilizer. And when that nitrogen runs off fields in Corn Belt states, it makes its way to the Mississippi River and eventually pours into the Gulf, where it contributes to a growing "dead zone" — a 7,900-square-mile patch so depleted of oxygen that fish, crabs and shrimp suffocate." 12-07