Wildlife
A member of the dog family.
What is a canine?
Having more than a single leaf blade.
What is a compound leaf?
At the mouth of a river where the water slows down and deposits the minerals is called _________.
What is river delta?
Animals with flat teeth for grinding plant material.
What is herbivore?
Describes how water moves through the environment (changes from liquid to gas to ice to liquid).
What is the water cycle?
Eats dead animal and dead plant material.
What is a scavenger?
What is pinnate veins?
Rivers and streams connect with each other in a system called ______.
What is a watershed?
Any cone bearing tree species. Usually trees with needles.
What is coniferous?
Short-legged, rotund rodents with brownish-gray coarse fur and a bushy black tail.
What is woodchucks?
An animal active during the day.
What is diurnal?
The four main parts of a growing tree.
What are: leaves, branches, stem/trunk, and roots?
Running water (rivers & streams) have a lot more _________ than still water (lakes).
What is oxygen?
A tail that can grasp on to objects is called a ________ tail.
What is prehensile?
An animal known for being a plantigrade and its scientific name is Procyon lotor.
What is raccoon?
The act of preserving habitat for wildlife.
What is conservation?
______ is a disease that killed off the American Chestnut tree.
What is the blight?
A way of grouping streams and rivers based on their size and location within a watershed.
What is a stream order?
________ is essential to the raccoon to help find crayfish, aquatic insects, minnows, and other food.
What is water?
Loss of habitat is the leading cause of _______ for wildlife populations.
What is extinction?
Animals who have a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
These are found in the ground, non-living things, including fossil fuels we burn for energy like natural gas, coal, and oil. These are called _________ natural resources.
What is nonrenewable?
They lack a backbone and can be seen WITHOUT using a microscope.
What is a macroinvertebrate?
These animals are also called "marsh hares" or "musk beavers".
What is muskrats?
Someone who studies mussels.
Who is a Malacologist?