Plants
What is the most common plant in the Everglades?
Sawgrass
What is the most common animal in the Everglades?
American Alligator
What is the dominant habitat in the Everglades?
Sawgrass Prairie
What are the seasons in the Everglades?
wet and dry
What is the most endangered animal in the Everglades?
Florida Panther
What plant covers the Sawgrass Prairie and is a home to many animals during the dry season?
periphyton
What is the biggest animal in the Everglades?
American Alagator
What habitat is endangered and only has %2 left?
Pine Rocklands
What are solution holes? Why are they important?
Solution holes are holes in the limestone that fill with water. They are homes for animals and protect them from fires.
What is the actual name for sawgrass?
saw sedge
What is the nickname for the Gumbo Limbo Tree?
Sunburn Tree
Tourist Tree
What is the rarest animal in the Everglades?
Florida Panther
What habitat is the deepest water habitat?
Slough
The ________________ is made of exposed limestone.
Miami Rock Ridge
What is the name of the Native American tribe that used to live in the Everglades?
Seminoles
What is it called when one plant attaches itself and grows on another tree or plant?
air plants
epiphytes
How animals keep their body temperatures low
Which habitat has a thick canopy?
Hardwood Hammock
What are the 2 sloughs in the Everglades?
Shark River Slough
Taylor Slough
_________________ were once endangered because tourists would collect them for their unique shell patterns.
Florida Tree Snails
What is dried up periphyton called?
marl soil
Give an example of thermoregulation in action.
Which habitat contains brackish water?
Mangroves
Where do Bald Cypress trees get their name?
They lose their needles in winter.
What is the heartbeat of the Everglades?
the cycle between the wet and dry seasons, best seen in the slough