State Symbols
What is New Mexico's state mammal?
What is the American Black Bear (Ursus americanus)?
The quality that measures the clarity of water.
What is Turbidity? (JTU, NTU)
Upland, grassland-nesting bird, best known for its unique courtship displays and "gobbling" grounds.
What is the Lesser Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)?
The state of the atmosphere at any given time and place.
What is weather?
The primary processes and stages of the water cycle
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What is...
What is New Mexico's state bird?
What is the Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus)?
When high, these two tests can indicate pollution form wastewater treatment plants, fertilized fields / yards, septic systems, etc.
What are Nitrates and Phosphates (ppm)?
Stocky mammals with short legs and small, rounded ears, gray ears, dark markings around their eyes, and black bands on tail.
What is a raccoon (Procyon Lotor)?
The act of passing all or part of winter in a dormant state where body functions is greatly slowed.
What is Hibernation?
The primary processes and stages of the carbon cycle.
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What is New Mexico's state amphibian?
What is the New Mexico Spadefoot Toad (Spea multiplicata)?
The amount of oxygen consumed by bacteria and other microorganisms while they decompose organic matter under aerobic conditions.
What is Biological Oxygen Demand (ppm)?
A ruminant mammal with antlers, a distinctive black forehead, a white rump patch and a small white tail with a black tip.
What is a mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus)?
A practical way to measure the salinity of soils.
What is Electrical Conductivity (EC)?
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What is a Food Web?
What is New Mexico's state reptile?
What is the New Mexico Whiptail (Cnemidophorus neomexianus)?
Decreases to sometimes lethal levels during the process of eutrophication, harming aquatic organisms.
What is Dissolved Oxygen (ppm)?
An omnivorous mammal of the family Canidae, with a grizzled gray coat, a black-tipped tail, and a white face, throat, and inner ears
What is the Grey Fox (Urocyon cinereoargenteus)?
A pair of fins situated on either side just behind a fish's head, helping to control the direction of movement during locomotion
What are the Pectoral Fins?
The primary greenhouse gasses.
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What is Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, Industrial gasses (f-gasses), Water Vapor
What is New Mexico's state insect?
What is the Tarantula Hawk Wasp (Pepsis formosa)?
Directly affects the availability of different toxic metals to aquatic organisms.
What is pH (0-14)?
Plump, volleyball-sized birds with short necks, small bills, and square tails. Both sexes have a comma-shaped topknot of feathers atop their small heads
What is Gambel's quail (Callipepla gambelii)?
A very thin layer of growing tissue in a tree trunk where new xylem and phloem cells are formed. This is the layer that forms tree rings.
What is the Cambium?
The four typical patterns of fire behavior in a specific ecosystem over time?
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What are Understory fires (forest), Stand-replacement fires (any vegetation type), Mixed-severity fires (forest), and Nonfire regimes?