2. Shoals
Miss Wilson

3. Definition of shoal
a bar of gravel, silt, sand, mud in water connecting two masses of land
A sandbar off Suffolk County, Long Island, NY.

4. long and narrow bars
A sandbar in Italy.

5. created by waves depositing pebbles, silt, sand, and mud
A shoal in the Mississippi River near Arkansas.

6. Shoals can be created in ponds and lakes, streams and lakes, seas and oceans.
Off the coast of Cornwall, England near Sicily.

7. Basically, a shoal can be formed anywhere where a wave is moving with gravel, silt, sand, and/or mud.
This will create inlets, coves, and reefs that house many marine life.
These blue stripe snapper are schooling.

8. Shoal Life http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/File:Heringsschwarm
Shoal Life Click on the hyperlink above before clicking on NEXT.

9. Schools of forage fish often accompany large predator fish
Schools of forage fish often accompany large predator fish. Here a school of jacks accompany a great barracuda.

10. Schooling predator blue fin trevally size up schooling anchovies.

11. Coral Reefs

13. Coral Reefs with a Brain Sponge

16. Assignment Watch Miss W. do a demo of a watercolor shoal.
Create your own version of a watercolor shoal.