Aquatics
CEI
Forestry
Soils
Wildlife
100
This is a layer of rock or soil which is saturated by water and is often drawn from for drinking water
What is an aquifer?
100
SDI's are used to see water straight to the roots of plants to prevent losing water to evaporation. This is what SDI stands for
What is subsurface drip irrigation?
100
A type of tree that has opposite branching pattern
What is maple, ash, or dogwood?
100
The three types of rocks
What is sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic?
100
One example of a method to eliminate pests in farming besides pesticides
What is biological controls (predators), non toxic substances, crop rotation, or mechanical nests?
200
Name (or describe) two of the three H's that characterize wetlands
What is hydrology, hydric soils, and/or hydophytic plants?
200
About 20 billion dollars worth of this will disappear from global markets if the Ogallala aquifer gets drained
What is food?
200
A type of tree harvesting where you cut all but the best trees for repopulation
What is seed tree cutting?
200
The three particles that make up soil
What is clay, sand, and silt?
200
Why are insects very important to nature?
They are bioindicators at the bottom of the food chain and are pollinators
300
This word describes fish that live in saltwater and migrate to freshwater to spawn, such as salmon and shad
What is anadromous?
300
This is a term for worldwide loss of fauna
What is biological annihilation?
300
The center of a tree trunk
What is the pith?
300
The removal of soil from the soil surface by flowing water or by wind
What is erosion?
300
True or false: Amphibians are cold blooded
True
400
This type of wetland is characterized by spongy peat, acidic waters, and sphagnum moss
What are bogs?
400
Monarch butterflies have decreased in population by about this percentage
What is 90 percent?
400
The layer of the leaves where photosynthesis takes place
What is the mesophyll layer?
400
The two types of weathering
What is chemical and physical?
400
True or false: amphibians sit in the sun because they are cold blooded and need to warm themselves.
False. Amphibians don't sunbathe reptiles do. Amphibians need to stay cool and damp to survive.
500
Name this plant, with scientific name Saururus cernuus
What is Lizard's Tail?
500
How many kiloliters of water it takes to produce 1 kilo of chocolate (+ or - 1000 L)
What is 17 Kiloliters?
500
The insect that attacks weak or dying trees whose galleries are a Y or H shape
What is the IPS beetle?
500
The bottom layer/horizon of soil
What is the R layer or bedrock?
500
Are insects vertebrates or invertebrates?
Invertebrates. They have an exoskeleton but no backbone.