Threatened and Endangered Mix
This is the group that developed the Red List of Threatened Species.
What is the IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature
These are the Illinois state snack and fruit.
What is popcorn and the Goldrush apple?
This is the year that the giant puffball was officially named the Illinois state fungus.
What is 2024?
This term means that a diet consists of eating sweet liquid from plants.
What is nectivorous?
This is the person who created the first scientific naming system.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
This is the number of hummingbird species that is critically endangered.
What is 8?
These are the two things that hummingbirds eat.
What are nectar and insects?
This is the number of hummingbird species.
What is 366?
This term means leaf stem.
What is petiole?
This person invented the first popcorn machine that used oil.
Who is Charles Cretors?
This is one of the Illinois endangered wildflowers.
What is wild hyacinth, or wood orchid, or yellow lady's slipper?
This is the wildflower that has buds that can be pickled and eaten.
What is the shooting star?
This is the number of phyla in the Kingdom Plantae.
What is 12?
This is the two-part naming system.
What is binomial nomenclature?
This is what IUCN stands for.
What is the International Union for Conservation of Nature?
These are two species of hummingbirds that are Birds of Conservation Concern.
What are Costa's, Calliope, Broad-tailed, Allen's, Rufous, or Lucifer?
These are two things that the eastern milksnake eats.
What are small mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and/or fish.
This is the number of pumpkin varieties there are.
What is 150?
This is the name for the bottom layer of soil.
What is substratum?
This is the only variety of corn that will pop.
What is zea mays everta?
These are the two species of hummingbirds that are extinct.
What are the Brace's emerald and the Caribbean emerald?
These are two wildflowers that smell like rotting flesh in order to attract flies to pollinate them.
What are wild ginger and skunk cabbage?
This is the number of miles that a Rufous hummingbird might migrate.
What is up to 4000 miles?
This term means ultimate power or authority.
What is sovereignty?
This plant has spadix inflorescence.
What is the Jack-in-the-Pulpit?