Plants, etc
Beavers
Fire Ecology
In the field
Hacky Sack
100
What is this plant?
Poison Oak, Toxicodendron diversilobum
100
What causes beavers' teeth to be orange?
Iron
100
What is the brush called that can elevate a surface fire to a canopy fire?
Ladder Fuel
100
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which knight wet himself in battle?
Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave
100
The hacky sack is kicked into some almost irretrievable location. Who do you send to get it?
Samuel
200
What is this plant?
Deerweed, Acmispon glaber
200
How many kits does a beaver generally have?
Two
200
Besides witches, what also floats?
Wood, bread, apples, very small rocks, and ducks.
200
What is the square plot that we made along the transect called?
Quadrat
200
What is the official name of the sport commonly known as “Hacky Sack”?
Footbag
300
This oak has small, evergreen, stiff, waxy, convex leaves.
Coast Live Oak
300
What is the purpose of a beaver's second set of eyelids?
Seeing underwater
300
Give two ways in which a prescribed fire burns differently than a wildfire?
TBD
300
Would you expect burned soil to have a pH of higher or lower than 7?
Higher
300
In what decade was the Hacky Sack first developed and marketed in the United States?
The 1970s
400
Finish this phrase with the appropriate plant. "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of..."
Elderberries
400
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, what is the specific reason King Arthur gave for not going to Camelot?
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot, it's rather a silly place.
400
What is the term for a pine cone that opens with smoke or fire?
Serotinous
400
What are the things you should start each field journal entry with?
Date, Time, Location, Weather conditions, Habitat/ecosystem type
400
What company purchased the Hacky Sack brand in 1983, helping introduce it to a much larger market?
Wham-O
500
What is the California state lichen?
Lace lichen, Ramalina menziesii,
500
What is the name of beavers' smelly secretion?
Castoreum
500
What adaptation allows resprouting from the base of a plant?
Resprouting from a burl or lignotuber
500
Which measurements had p values less than 0.05?
Species Richness, % cover, leaf litter depth
500
What is Sir Galahad's favorite color?
Blue.... NO! Yellow!