Birds
The state bird of Virginia.
What is the Northern Cardinal? OR
What is the Cardinal?
Two things that squirrels like to eat.
Nuts, seeds (like acorns), fruits, insects, and (sometimes) bird eggs
This is one of the benefits of citizen science.
What are volunteer hours? OR
What is personal fulfillment/enrichment? OR
What is helping scientists collect data?
The place you should keep your arm during a blood pressure reading.
One example of an adaptation that birds have.
Mr. Bristow will decide if it counts (there are too many examples to put)
The most common bird in the United States (hint: it has an orange belly).
What is the American Robin?
The only type of squirrel we saw this week.
What is the eastern gray squirrel? OR
What is the gray squirrel?
The name of the project we participated in where we recorded certain species of birds.
What is Celebrate Urban Birds?
Two things that can raise your blood pressure during a blood pressure reading, excluding eating and drinking caffeine.
Talking, active listening, feet in the air, back is slouched, the cuff is on wrong, the arm is in the air, legs are crossed, sleeves are under the cuff, or you really have to use the bathroom
The type of sediment that had the fastest water percolation in our experiment.
What is soil?
The bird that sounds like an owl, is very common in Virginia, and is a type of dove.
What is the mourning dove?
A brown-orange squirrel with black fringes that lives in Virginia, but we did not see this week.
What is the fox squirrel?
The reason scientists ask citizens to collect data for them.
What is sometimes scientists can't collect all of the data themselves for some projects? OR
What is sometimes scientists want to see how citizens answer certain questions?The number on top of your blood pressure reading.
What is systolic blood pressure?
The system scientists use to name animals that has two parts.
What is the binomial nomenclature?
The gray bird that commonly lives in cities and is known for eating bird seed left out by humans.
What is the rock pigeon? OR
What is the pigeon?
One of the scientific reasons we squirrel-watched this week.
Squirrels are useful bioindicators. OR
Squirrels are generally good indicators of ecosystem health.
The name of the citizen science activity that lets you categorize galaxies seen through the James Webb Space Telescope.
What is Galaxy Zoo?
The number on the bottom of you blood pressure reading.
What is diastolic blood pressure?
The genus name for most tree squirrels in Virginia, such as the gray squirrel.
What is the name 'Sciurus'?