Soils
The different layers of soil that make up a soil profile
What are soil horizons
State mammal of New Mexico
What is an American Black Bear (Ursus americanus )?
A system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water
What is a Lateral Line?
The primary limiting factor for tree growth in new mexico
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 three particles that make up the fine earth fraction
What are Sand, Silt, and Clay?
The percent energy transfer from one trophic level to the next
What is 10%?
Water changes phases directly from solid to gas
What is sublimation?
The nature of fire occurring over long periods and the prominent immediate effects of fire that generally characterize an ecosystem.
What is a Fire Regime?
Upland, grassland-nesting bird, best known for its unique courtship displays and "gobbling" grounds.
What is the Lesser Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)?
The biological process that puts carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
What is Cellular respiration?
An Act to conserve “the ecosystems upon which endangered and threatened species depend”
Artificial aquifer recharge in which water is spread over the land in pits, furrows, or ditches to infiltrate
What are Rapid-Infiltration Pits?
Crown class in which trees receive full sunlight from above and the sides.
What is Dominant?
An instrument estimates forest canopy coverage, can measure forest overstory density from unobstructed sighting positions.
What is a densiometer?
Tiny, Non-segmented worms that reside in soil, feed on nearly every class of organism in the soil
What are nematodes?
Nearly wiped out bald eagle populations in America during the 1940s-70s
What is the pesticide DDT?
The ideal range of the Negative logarithm of the hydrogen-ion concentration for aquatic organisms
What is pH 6-9?
What the volume of firewood is expressed in
What are cords?
1/3" - 4" milky, green, or light brown; plump caterpillar like segmented body. May have enlarged lobe or fleshy fingerlike extensions at the end of the abdomen
What is a Crane Fly Larva (suborder Nematocera)?
A measure of how well a wet soil sample holds together when deformed.
Plasticity
A reduction of an animals ability to survive caused by the repeated mating of successive generations of closely related individuals.
What is Inbreeding Depression?
The limit on the maximum amount of pollution that a water body can receive under the Clean Water Act (1977)
What are Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL)?
A forest stand with all growing space effectively occupied but have ample room for crop development.
What is a fully stocked stand?
A tree with cones that are berrylike, round, 1/4 inch in diameter and dark bluish with a whitish coat. They have 1 seed per fruit.
What is a One Seed Juniper (Juniperus monosperma)?