Plants
These are special characteristics of plants (& animals) that help them to survive.
What are Adaptations?
An area where saltwater and freshwater come together and mix.
What is an estuary?
These types of bees are not a part of a colony or hive. (Hint: the majority of bees exhibit this behavior)
What are solitary bees?
This causes the ocean's tides.
What is the moon?
The process of removing invasive plants to help restore ecological function of coastal dunes.
What is Restoration?
The three major methods of seed dispersal.
What is wind dispersal, animal dispersal, and water dispersal?
The series of dunes and ridges directly parallel to the beach.
What are the foredunes? (or nearshore dunes)
This term describes animals that active at dawn and dusk.
What is crepuscular?
This term describes the habitat type that European Beachgrass forms in our dunes. (Hint: this term is also used in agriculture)
What is monoculture?
The Soulatluk (Wiyot Language) name of the Humboldt Bay.
Where is Wigi (Wee-gee)?
The three invasive plants of focus in Humboldt dune ecosystems.
What are European beachgrass, yellow bush lupine, and iceplant?
The habitat that is exposed in Humboldt Bay during low tide.
What are mudflats?
This dog-like predator lives in the dunes and conserves energy by walking in its own footprints.
What is a Grey Fox?
These three "ingredients" are required to form dune systems.
What are sand, wind, and space?
European Beachgrass was planted to protect these. (Hint: After trees were cut down in the forest, they were sent here to be processed)
What are Lumber Mills?
Yellow bush lupine aids in the success of other weedy plants by creating nutrient rich substrate through this chemical process.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The two main tree species that that make up Humboldt's dune forests.
What are Sitka spruce and shore pine?
Two out of the four primary pressures that threaten Western Snowy Plover populations.
What is habitat degradation, predation, human disturbance, and inclement weather?
Two of the four main tributaries streams that runoff into the bay.
What is Jacoby Creek, Freshwater Creek, Salmon Creek, and the Eel River?
The two sites on the North Spit of Humboldt Bay that are great examples of successful restoration of dune ecosystems.
What are the Lanphere and Ma-l'el Dunes?
What plant is closely associated with the Acmon blue butterfly?
What is Beach Buckwheat?
This dune feature forms when wind removes sand over time, forming deep depressions behind the foredune.
What is a dune swale? (or deflation plane or hollow)
This term describes bee species that pollinate only specific plant species.
What is Oligolectic?
This chemical causes the rotten-egg odor in Humboldt Bay's mudflats.
What is the hydrogen sulfide?
The study of dune restoration first began at the Lanphere Dunes in the late years of this decade.
What is the 1970's?