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Do I Belong in Florida?
Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
100
Florida has this many types of pineland habitat.
What is six?
100
This animal is Florida's only marsupial and it consumes both plant and animal material making them omnivores.
What is an opossum?
100
Cape Coral holds an annual festival to bring awareness to their declining habitat.
What is the burrowing owl?
100
These animals are primarily herbivores but will eat invertebrates, eggs, amphibians, snakes, and other small vertebrates.They may grow to several
hundred pounds and they have high reproductive rates.
What are feral pigs?
100
Hamlet's witches might not have been able to finish their potion if they were looking for this Florida salamander.
What is a striped newt?
200
These species have a restricted distribution and are unique to an area.
What is endemic?
200
This animal is Florida’s most common squirrel and is found throughout the state in both natural and urban areas.
What is the eastern grey squirrel.
200
Because of its highly restricted choice of habitat and low dispersal ability, populations of this bird have become very isolated.
What is the Florida scrub jay?
200
This animal is an insectivore, and is unique in that it is the only armored mammal
What is a nine banded armadillo.
200
This threatened snake is often found in association with gopher tortoise burrows in well drained scrub habitats.
What is an eastern indigo snake?
300
They require heat to release seeds.
What are pyrogenic plants
300
Florida has this many native species of terrestrial mammals.
What is 53.
300
This raptor visits Florida from South America during the months of February through August and nest in pines and cypress.
What is the Swallow Tailed Kite?
300
These invertebrates have a nasty bite that leaves a blister.
What is a Red Imported Fire ant.
300
This is the only true ranid frog in Florida.
What is the gopher frog?
400
The adult version of this nymph is very distasteful.
What is the Southeastern Lubber grasshopper?
400
Burrowing mammals utilize these senses to locate prey.
What are the senses of smell and touch.
400
This bird and Vlad the Impaler have similar fates for their prey.
What is a meadowlark?
400
This grass is one of the troublesome invasive species in the world.
What is Cogon grass?
400
This alien frog from the south preys on several native treefrog species.
What is the Cuban tree frog?
500
These plants produce one or more biochemicals that influence the growth, survival, and reproduction of other organisms.
What is allelopathic ?
500
This is Florida's official state animal.
What is the Florida panther.
500
Florida's most abundant woodpecker has a buff colored belly.
What is the Red-bellied woodpecker?
500
This exotic frog can jump up to five feet.
What is the Greenhouse frog?
500
This is the Florida state amphibian.
What is the barking tree frog?