Aquatics
What is the limiting nutrient in freshwater environments?
What is "phosphorus"?
What tissue transports water from a tree’s roots to the rest of the plant?
What is “xylem”?
What is the process by which water moves through soil and rocks under gravitational forces?
What is "percolation"?
What was the first federal law for wildlife protection?
What is the "Lacey Act (1900)"?
When phosphorus is too high, what do water bodies undergo?
What is "eutrophication"?
What is the limiting nutrient in saltwater?
What is "nitrogen"?
What are 3 ecosystem services that forests provide?
What are “carbon sequestration, atmospheric cooling, air purification, water purification, food, timber, recreation, wildlife habitat, and cultural resources/value?”
What are the 2 major parent materials in Rhode Island soils?
What are “glacial till and glacial outwash/fluvial”?
What is the term for chopping a habitat into smaller and smaller pieces?
What is "fragmentation"?
An organism that serves as a measure of the environmental conditions that exist in a given place is called what?
What is an “indicator species”?
What is the biggest drinking water supply in Rhode Island?
What is "the Scituate Reservoir"?
What forest pest threatens ash trees in the Northeast?
What is “emerald ash borer”?
Soils in Rhode Island with which major parent material are best for agriculture?
What is “glacial outwash/fluvial”?
What is the term for the largest number of individuals people are willing to tolerate?
What is "cultural carrying capacity"?
What organism indicates good water quality?
What is "mayfly larva"?
According to the 2024/2025 Rhode Island Envirothon aquatics video what is the solution for eutrophication?
What is "clean water?" --> "Clean water is a forest product"
How many cubic feet are in a cord of wood?
What is "128 cubic feet"?
What are the 5 soil forming factors?
What are “parent material, time, climate, landscape position (topography), and living organisms (biota)”?
What is a transitional area of vegetation between two different plant communities, such as forest and grassland called?
What is an "ecotone"?
hat bird species would you expect to find in a mature hardwood forest in RI? Name 2
What are “scarlet tanager, red-eyed vireo, wood thrush, black and white warbler, ovenbird, and eastern wood pewee”?
What is the largest watershed in the U.S.?
What is the "Mississippi River Watershed"?
Describe one difference between hardwood and softwood trees
What is “Hardwoods are typically deciduous (lose leaves in fall), softwoods are typically evergreen”
Or what is “hardwoods flower & fruit, softwoods are cone-bearing”
What is “hardwoods usually have broad leaves, softwoods have needle-/scalelike leaves”
What is “hardwoods are typically slower growing and make denser/stronger wood, softwoods are faster growing → cheaper to grow for timber”
Which soil structure types are most permeable to water? Name 1
What is “single grain or granular”?
What is an example of a habitat specialist for pine barrens?
What is "frosted elfin butterfly"?
Name 2 impacts of climate change on forest’s susceptibility to pests
What are “longer pest seasons from warmer temperatures, weaker trees due to stress from warmer temperatures and more severe weather, migration of pests enabled by warmer temperatures”?