Macroinvertebrates
Shell opens to the right side and is covered by a hard shield-like operculum.
What is the Gilled Snail?
Many kinds of ducks consume this plant but if it completely covers the surface of a pond for long periods of time it will cause oxygen depletion.
What is Duckweed?
In North Carolina, they are predominantly found in the Piedmont and Foothill regions and are absent or rare in the lower Coastal Plain due to their inability to tolerate acidic or saline waters.
What is the Green Sunfish?
Consists of a weighted circular plate 8 inches in diameter with opposing black and white quarters painted on the surface.
What is the Secchi Desk?
Humans are 70% water by volume and this much by weight.
What is 60%?
Resemble Hellgrammites but are smaller and don't have gill tuffs.
What is a Fishfly (larva)?
This plant can be found in ponds, lakes, slow streams, and ditches.
What is the water lily?
The Brown Trout was brought from here.
What is Europe?
For cleaning and separating organisms in an aquatic field collection. Can also be used for sorting particle size of substrate and collecting burrowing aquatic organisms found in soft bottom sediments.
What is a Sieve?
So much water is taken from this river by the US, that by the time it reaches Mexico, it is a very small stream.
What is the Colorado River?
Lobster-like. 8 walking legs. 2 pinching claws
What is a Crayfish?
Various species of vertebrates including ducks and muskrats also consume parts of this plant as food. American Indian tribes used the dried, ground roots and flowers and consumed the berries like peas, but all parts of the plant are toxic if not properly processed.
What is Arrow Arum?
This helps catfish feel and taste for food in the dark, murky lake bottoms.
What are barbels or whiskers?
Consists of a square brass box attached to a rope with flap-like doors at the top and two jaws at the bottom.
What is an Eckman Dredge?
The purpose if this is to protect and recover imperiled species and the ecosystems the depend on.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
Slender, long-legged bug; surface film dweller
What is a Water Strider?
Pontederia cordata is the scientific name for this plant.
What is Pickerelweed?
These fish hatch and live as young in the Atlantic Ocean, live their adult life in rivers, and return to the ocean to spawn.
What is catadromous?
Used for observing and identifying specimens to small to be seen with the unaided eye.
What is a Compound Microscope
Located on the Albemarle-Pamlico Peninsula in Hyde County, North Carolina, is the largest natural lake in North Carolina that stretches 18 miles long and 7 miles wide and covers over 40,000 acres. One of many Carolina Bay lakes, it is a shallow coastal lake, averaging only 2–3 feet in depth.
What is Lake Mattamuskeet?
2 hair-like tails; 6 jointed legs with two hooked tips each; big antenna; no gills on lower half of the body.
What is the Stonefly (nymph)?
Elodea Canadensis is the scientific name of this plant.
What is American Waterweed
this is a native species of North Carolina. In North America it was originally found from southeastern Canada through the Great Lakes; south down the Mississippi Valley to Mexico and Florida; and up the Atlantic coast as far north as Maryland. As the fish grew in popularity with anglers, it was stocked in other areas and today is found throughout the continental United States and Hawaii, and southeastern Canada. It has also been stocked in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
What is the Largemouth Bass?
Consists of battery-powered air pump connected by rubber tubing to an air stone which is used for pumping oxygen into the water.
What is an Aerator
Estuaries have fresher, less dense water on top and saltier, denser water below. This is known as a ____, and it moves up and down the river as the tide comes in and recedes.
What is a Salt Wedge?