WILDlife
Minnesota's state bird
What is the common loon?
A common home of some owls, birds, mammals, and insects
What is a hollowed-out space in a tree?
A river that runs 680 of it's 2552 miles through Minnesota
What is the Mississippi River?
An item required by law for each person on a watercraft.
What is a life jacket?
Over 70 protected places in Minnesota where over 11 million people visit each year
What are Minnesota State Parks?
A mammal that has an adaptation of brown fur in summer and white fur in winter
What is a Snowshoe hare?
This tree was chosen as the Minnesota State tree in 1953
What is the Norway Pine?
What are fry (mosquito sized) and fingerling (4-6 inch fish)?
Worn when in a tree stand to keep a person from falling off the stand.
What is a safety harness?
Established in 1891 this place is Minnesota's oldest State Park
What is Itasca State Park?
Minnesota's only species of its kind also known as Ursus americanus
What is the American black bear?
The part of a tree that absorbs water and minerals and spread much farther than the crown.
What are tree roots?
The world's largest freshwater lake and has a port in Duluth, Minnesota
What is Lake Superior?
The medical term for when the body cools faster than it can warm up
What is hypothermia?
The watersport invented in MN in 1922
What is waterskiing? (by Ralph Samuelson on Lake Pepin just before his 19th birthday)
A forest that has trees that lose their leaves at the end of each growing season.
What is a deciduous forest?
4 of our 87 counties in Minnesota don't have these
What are lakes?
What is the best way to put out a campfire?
A constellation visible year-round and used for navigation.
What is Ursa Minor, home to Polaris the North Star?
A bird that has been clocked at speeds over 200 mph chasing prey
What is the Peregrine Falcon?
Coniferous and Deciduous
What are the 2 types of trees in Minnesota?
What is Red Lake?
Wear layers that are right for the activity and weather conditions
What is the best way to stay safe and comfortable when outdoors?
An area of MN home to over 2,000 lakes connected by rivers and portages
What is the BWCA?