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Chesapeake Bay Facts

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How Old is the Chesapeake Bay?

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Happy 12,000th Birthday to You!

That's a lot of candles.

That's Right. 
The Bay is 12,000 years old.

Let's do the math!
 5 X 2,400 = ______


cartoon illustration of a wooly mammoth12,000 years ago Ice Age people were roaming the plains and forests in North America, hunting enormous mammals with stone-pointed spears.

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