Soil & Water
PH can be applied to both..?
What is soil and water?
Name one natural resource
What is crude oil, water, air, soil, plants and animals?
Closely related to salmon, these exclusively freshwater fish have protected habitat
What is trout?
Trees that remain green year-round and bears needles instead of leaves
What is coniferous?
The length of a gunter's chain
What is 66ft?
Lands that occur along the edges of rivers, streams, lakes, and other water bodies
What is riparian zone?
The name of gases that are responsible for destroying the ozone layer
What is greenhouse gases?
The scientific name is vulpes vulpes
What is red fox?
Trees that enjoy more acidic soil
What is eastern hemlock or eastern white pine?
Which comes first, backsight or foresight?
What is backsight?
The definition of a point source pollutant
A point source is a single, identifiable source of pollution, such as a pipe or a drain.
The process in which plants absorb water through their roots and release it as vapor from their leaves
What is transpiration?
The largest native fish species in North America's Great Lakes, considered prehistoric
What is Lake Sturgeon?
The scientific name is quercus rubra
What is red oak?
If you took 57 steps, how many paces would that be?
What is 28.5 paces?
The New York soil type
What is honeoye?
Which of the following is fauna? Buffalo grass, staghorn coral, or sugar maple tree
What is staghorn coral?
The scientific name is castor canadensis
What is American Beaver?
When deciduous trees retain their leaves throughout winter
What is marcescence?
225 degrees on a compass is considered?
What is south-west?
The soil horizon layers
What is organic layer, topsoil, subsoil, parent rock, bedrock?
Living and non-living natural resources are referred to as..?
Biotic and abiotic natural resources
Timber rattlesnakes are viviparous, what does this mean?
What is they give birth to live young?
The 5 layers of the forest
What is, forest floor, shrub layer, understory, canopy, emergent layer?
The compass declination of New York state
What is -13°?