Which is Which?
Prairie History
Illinois Prairie
Plant Power
Prairie Plants
100
This is the type of prairie that's on the Eastern Great Plains.
What is a tallgrass prairie?
100
This is the reason that settlers had such a hard time working prairie soil to farm it.
What is the thick layers of grass and soil were held together by plant roots about a foot thick (sod)?
100
This is the number of plant species that is indigenous to Illinois prairies.
What is over 850?
100
This prairie plant converts nitrogen to a form that can be used to make chlorophyll.
What is the lead plant?
100
This plant's roots, if chewed, can make you throw up.
What is the rattlesnake master?
200
This is the name for the overlap of shortgrass and tallgrass prairies.
What is a mixed prairie?
200
These were the years that settlers started coming to the prairie to live.
What is 1820-1840?
200
This is the number of natural divisions that Illinois is divided into.
What is 14?
200
This prairie plant is a natural source of thymol, an antiseptic used in mouthwash.
What is wild bergamot (aka bee balm)?
200
This plant was believed to help heal broken bones.
What is common boneset?
300
This type of prairie describes thinner grasses and can be found west of the Eastern Great Plains.
What is the shortgrass prairie?
300
This is how settlers broke through the sod.
What is using oxen to pull a plow?
300
This is the percentage and number of acres of prairie that currently cover Illinois.
What is 1% and 6100 acres?
300
This plant has fruits that are excellent sources of Vitamin C.
What is pasture rose or rose hips?
300
This is the nickname of the big blue stem.
What is the turkey foot?
400
This is the meaning of the Latin work partum.
What is meadow?
400
This is the percentage of land in 1820 that was covered by prairie.
What is 60%?
400
These are the two areas in Central Illinois where trees grew.
What are in prairie groves and along waterways?
400
This plant's toxicity is used by the monarch as a defense mechanism.
What is milkweed?
400
This prairie plant has leaves that can cut through skin.
What is prairie cord grass?
500
These are rich, scattered patches of trees surrounded by prairie.
What are prairie groves?
500
This is the year by which most prairies had been changed to farmland or urban areas.
What is 1900?
500
These are four of the criteria that are used to divide the natural landscape of Illinois.
What are topography, glacial history, bedrock, soils, and/or distribution of plants and animals.
500
These are four reasons to restore prairies.
What are habitat, pollination, aesthetics, cost effect, and/or innovations?
500
Native Americans used this plant to help relieve arthritis.
What is the lead plant?
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