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Challenge
Soil
100
Is the marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris) a rodent?
No
100
What is a river delta?
The mouth of a river, area of deposition.
100
What is a compound leaf?
Bonus 100- What are the two types of compound leaves?
leaf having more than a single leaf blade (leaflets)
pinnately and palmately
100
Third order streams are larger than first order streams. True or False?
True
100
What are the 3 types of mangroves?
(extra 100 for naming all)
red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), the black mangrove (Avicennia Germinans), and white mangroves (Laguncularia Racemosa).
100
Generally, most of the macronutrients in soil are most readily available at pH values between
6.5 and 7.5
200
What mammal types leaves claw marks in their footprints?
Canines
200
Do rivers or ponds have more oxygen?
Rivers
200
What does deciduous mean?
Refers to trees that drop their leaves each autumn.
200
What is a watershed?
an area of land that catches precipita?on (rain, sleet, snow) that flows & drains into a body of water such as a wetland, stream, river, lake, or groundwater
200
What step of the water cycle happens after condensation?
precipitation
200
Nitrification is the conversion of
ammonia is converted to nitrites (NO2-) and then nitrates (NO3-).
300
Name a few of Florida keystone species?
Gopher tortoises, American Alligator, gopher frogs, mice, foxes, skunks, opossums, rabbits, quail, armadillos and burrowing owls.
300
Does does "benthic" mean?
Living on the bottom
300
What is the petiole?
The leaf stalk
300
What is the "bud" part of a leaf?
A structure that will become a leaf, a flower, or a new shoot
300
What is the larval stage of a dobsonfly called?
Hellgrammite
300
Why are some soils red?
due to ferric oxides occurring as thin coatings on the soil particles while the iron oxide occurs as haematite or as hydrous ferric oxide, the color is red and when it occurs in the hydrate form as limonite the soil gets a yellow colour
400
Name a FL mammal that is nocturnal.
Opossum, brown bat, racoon, skunk, coyote, red fox, panther
400
What fish is this?
Black Crappie
400
Serrate, Lobed, Entire and Bristle tipped are all terms to describe what part of a leaf?
leaf margin
400
Name 1 of the 8 Florida endangers birds
Bachman’s wood warbler, Cape Sable seaside sparrow, Eskimo curlew, Everglade snail kite, Florida grasshopper sparrow, Ivory-billed woodpecker, Kirtland’s warbler, and Red-cockaded woodpecker
400
What plant does this leaf come from?
Laguncularia racemosa, the white mangrove
400
In the following illustration please fill in the missing names of the master horizons in the blanks labeled (a) through (f)
(a) = O, (b) = A, (c) = E, (d) = B, (e) = C, and (f) = R
500
What Florida mammal has an opposable thumb?
Opossum
500
What is transpiration?
when water evaporates from plant leaves up into the sky
500
This is an deciduous conifers. What tree does it come from?
Taxodium distichum
Bald cypress
500
What does catadromous mean?
Bonus 100-What FL animal is catadromous?
migrating down rivers to the sea to spawn
Salmon, smelt, shad, striped bass, and sturgeon
500
List at least two reasons why scientists may want to study macroinvertebrates.
Bonus 100-Name a macroinvertebrate.
1. Macroinvertebrates are easy to sample. They are found in large numbers and can be easily collected and idenfied by most people.
2. Macroinvertebrates cannot easily escape pollution. While fish can swim away, birds can fly away & mammals can walk away.
3. Most invertebrates live most of their lives in the same part of a stream or river, clinging to objects like rocks, plant stems and underwater branches to keep from being swept away in the current. We know where to find them.
500
What are the names 1 of the 12 major soil orders of Soil Taxonomy?
(extra 100 --- what taxa would you find here in Lee County)
Alfisols, Andisols, Aridisols, Entisols, Gelisols, Histosols, Mollisols, Inceptisols, Oxisols, Spodosols, Ultisols, Vertisols
SWFL: Spodosols, south of Lee County Entisols, everglade Histosols