This is the name for the bony external scale on a turtle shell.
What is a scute?
100
This is the number of legs on most insects.
What is six?
100
This bird says, "here I am-where are you?"
What is the red-eyed vireo?
100
This insect has an extremely long (13 or 17 years) nymphal stage?
What is the periodic cicada?
100
This is the name of the reservoir that is the first one you pass when driving uphill on the dirt road from the Lodge.
What is the Upper Reservoir?
200
This is one of the closest relatives of the turtle?
What is a bird or a crocodile?
200
This is the name of the process in which engineers borrow ideas from the biological world.
What is biomimicry?
200
This whole plant has no chlorophyll, has the life style of a mushroom and the parts of a flower.
What is the Indian pipe?
200
These are unusual insects because they have only two wings.
What are flies?
200
This is the name of an old building made of large rocks that used to be a bunkhouse for workers in the forest when Black Rock Forest was first formed.
What is the Stone House?
300
This is the only body part to grab safely to pick up a snapping turtle without hurting it.
What is the rear side of its shell?
300
This hard outside covering on an insect might have inspired body armour on people.
What is an exoskeleton?
300
This term means to go beyond the data set and predict a value.
What is to extrapolate?
300
The ancestors of which insect had a wingspan of over two feet.
What are dragonflies?
300
This is the name of the SECOND reservoir in the forest-the one with the stair-step dam. It's where there was once a dairy farm.
What is Aleck Meadow Reservoir?
400
This determines the gender of some turtles.
What is the temperature of the nest?
400
This is a kind of motor that does not fully turn, but serves a specific purpose.
What is a servo or servo motor?
400
Sundews, sphagnum, tussock. sedge and leather leaf are plants that like to grow in this type of wetland.
What is a fen?
400
Recent studies indicate the other arthropod group that insects are most closely related to.
What are crustaceans?
400
This is about how many acres there are in Black Rock Forest.
What is 3,800-4,000?
500
This is the most abundant (common) salamander in New York State.
What is the red-backed salamander?
500
The name of this group of organisms literally means "jointed legs".
What is arthropods?
500
This type of fence is used to keep out (or exclude) large herbivores.
What is a (deer) exclosure?
500
Although the K-T meteor impact wiped out the dinosaurs and many other organisms, how many of the insect orders existing at the time became extinct?
What is none?
500
This is the first name of the health director who lives in the forest all year round. (He is also the data manager for Black Rock Forest when the science camp is not in session.)