Let's Talk Winter
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Forest, Baby!
100

The shortest day of the year, December 21st in 2024

What is the winter solstice?

100

Crunchy snack made from a sister variety of Ohio's 6th largest agricultural export

What is popcorn?

100

The "father" of Mill Creek Park

Who is Volney Rogers?

100

"Black-capped" feeder bird whose call resembles its own name

What is a chickadee?

100

Organisms like insects and fungi that break down dead plant and animal matter and recycle it back into the ecosystem

What are decomposers?

200

One of our region's few true hibernators, famous for predicting the weather (over in PA); we also have one here that burrows under the bird feeders outside Nancy's Nook

What is a groundhog?

200

A misnomer for the tulip tree, which actually belongs to the magnolia family

What is a (tulip) poplar?

200

The oldest and smallest of Mill Creek Park's three man-made lakes

What is Lake Cohasset?

200

The name of the family who donated the buildings and property that the nature center currently occupies

What is Ford?

200

Mill Creek MetroParks' premier evergreen species, for which Lake Cohasset is named

What is hemlock?

300

Where freshwater turtles spend most of the cold months

What is the bottom of the pond/lake?

300

Ecological state in which the number of individuals in an environment exceeds its carrying capacity

What is overpopulation?

300

First name of the man for whom Lanternman's Mill is named?

What is German?

300

The largest of Ohio's four native squirrel species, which owes half of its name to another forest critter

What is a fox squirrel?

300

Ohio's earliest-blooming native wildflower, which shares part of its name with a stinky, black and white mammal 

What is skunk cabbage?

400

Process by which chickadees are able to quickly warm up on winter mornings (humans do this too, but we are not as efficient about it) 

What is shivering?

400

Members of the Papaveraceae flower family of which two species are native to Ohio

What are poppies?

400

The "dwarf" tree immortalized in statue form alongside the Father of Mill Creek Park

What is a whitethorn/hawthorn tree?

400

"Topsy-turvy" feeder bird with a thin beak and gray, white, and black plumage

What is a nuthatch?

400

One of the two symbiotic components of a lichen

What is fungi/algae?

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