Tie breakers
Vocabulary
Animals
On the trails
Random
100
How many individual insects are there at any given moment?
Scientists estimate that there are about 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive at any given moment on Earth
100
What is a vertebrate?
An animal with a spine
100
What are the 3 animals/animal groups that are capable of true flight?
Bats, insects & birds
100
How do you identify posion ivy?
It is a vine with leaves that grow in sets of 3
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100
What is the species of bird that we met this week?
A ring neck dove
250
Name 2 of the 3 types of crabs that we have seen in the salt marsh?
Fiddler crabs, Blue crabs, Mud crabs
250
What is an adaptation?
A change or adjustment that helps something or someone fit in better with its surroundings or situation
250
Name the 5 vertebrate groups
Mammals, fish, birds, amphibians & reptiles
250
What is a vine that we have on the trail that isn't poison ivy?
Honeysuckle, Virginia creeper, Porcelain berry, English ivy
250
What is the name of the small green plant that floats on the surface of the pond and gets washed into the salt marsh from Oakland Lake?
Duckweed
500
What animal species do we have at APEC?
Name as many species as you can and what the names of those animals are.
Rabbits - Claude, Mustache, Ruby, Cora, Benji
Chinchillas - Tilly, Lilly, Chilly
Guinea Pigs - Hazel, Macadamia, Coco, Blue, Mochi
Red Eared Sliders - Bucket, Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael
Painted Turtle - Van Gogh
3 Toed Box Turtle - Ms. Michealangelo
Quaker Parrot - Boon
Love Birds - Luna & Bertie Allen
Ring Neck Doves - Patrick, Snow, Jack, Molly, Blossom, Suzie, Julie, Snow Pie, Henry
Eastern Box Turtles - Karen, Domino, Jack, Jill, Sheldon, Pop, Sam
Corn Snakes - Junior, Goldie, Checkers
Ball Pythons - Cypress, Big Mama, Solomon
Leopard Geckos - Pumpkin & Lenny
Bearded Dragons - Jimmy, Glinda, Rey
Gulf Box Turtle - Shy
Stick Bug - Woody
Darkling Beetles
Whites tree frog - (unnamed)
Green tree frog - Hoppity
Clownfish - Marlin
Eastern Hercules Beetles
Blue Death Feigning Beetles
African Clawed Frog
Other bugs - Isopods, roaches, snails, millipede
500
What is metamorphosis?
Metamorphosis is a process where some animals, especially insects, go through physical changes to become adults. For example, a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. This transformation involves several stages, such as egg, larva, pupa, and adult
500
Name 5 types of bugs that we see on the trails
Wolf spiders, ants, daddy long legs, fireflies, box elder bugs, ticks, mosquitos, snails, worms, beetles, butterflies, moths, crane flies
500
What is the name of the tall invasive salt grass that we see all over the trails?
Phragmites
500
Name 4 adaptations that we spoke about during our lessons this week.
Vertebrates
Camouflage
Flight
Animals that can build/weave
Metamorphosis
Humans large brains and thumbs