Spiders
Wildlife
Water Resources
The Water Cycle
Wildlife Signs
100
This is the anatomical part that ends in fangs.
What are palps?
100
This term means that a diet consists of other animals and plants.
What is omnivorous?
100
This is a structure built to stop and hold water.
What is a dam?
100
This is the percentage of water that oceans contain at any given time.
What is 97%?
100
Which animal's scat resembles shredded wheat?
What is a beaver?
200
This is the term used for shedding.
What is molting?
200
This is the best time of day to find eastern cottontail rabbits.
What is dawn or dusk?
200
This is another name for a man-made lake.
What is a reservoir?
200
This is water that is not absorbed into the ground.
What is runoff?
200
These dead trees are great places to check for wildlife signs.
What are snags?
300
This is the type of light that can be seen by insects (in some spider webs) but cannot be seen by humans.
What is ultraviolet light?
300
The is the way that male deer mark their territory.
What is rubbing their antlers against small trees?
300
This is a stream that sometimes dries out.
What is an ephemeral stream?
300
This is the absorption of water into the land.
What is infiltration?
300
The larvae of moths, flies, and beetles leave these.
What are leaf miner tracks?
400
Spider webs are full of this, which is why some spiders eat their webs.
What is protein?
400
This is what a bobcat prefers to eat.
What is rabbits and hares?
400
This is the number of states that the Mississippi River drains.
What is 31?
400
This happens when too much water condenses.
What is precipitation?
400
The tracks of this animal ranges from 1 to 3 inches and show five toes on each of the front and hind feet.
What is a skunk?
500
This is the number of spiders that are actually considered medically important.
What is 12?
500
This is the length that red foxes usually reach.
What is 40 inches long?
500
These are the chemicals that are added to water at a water treatment plant.
What chlorine and flouride?
500
This is the way that the water cycle happens in Illinois.
What is precipitation, infiltration to aquifers, and runoff to the Embarras, Kaskaskia, or the Little Wabash, and then water is deposited into the Mississippi which flows to the Gulf of Mexico?
500
This animals scat may have seeds, berries, corn, and perhaps crayfish parts.
What is a raccoon?
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