Ornithology
Terminology
Recology
Hydrology
Dendrology
History
100
This bird by any other name would be called a dove
What is a pigeon?
100
Broadly defined, this field studies the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in a non-rural environment
What is Urban Ecology?
100
Peacocks, pigs and roosters are all animals you can find at this nifty facility
What is the Marin Recycling Center?
100
There are more molecules in this measurement of water than there are seconds since the universe began
What is a tablespoon?
100
Some species of trees use these powerful scent signals to warn each other of danger
What are pheremones?
100
1934 was the year this Marin institution was founded
What is the Marin Conservation League?
200
There are more than 1000 of these at Gospel Flat Farm
What are chickens?
200
This app connects people to nature and allows users to share and record biodiversity information
What is inaturalist
200
The number of weeks it takes for recycled aluminum cans from the MRC to reappear on stores shelves?
What is 6 weeks?
200
This clever slippy slide allows water to run off from a teeming reservoir
What is a spillway?
200
In recent years this common San Francisco street tree, known for their impressive evergreen canopies, have faced mass removals by the Department of Public Works
What are ficus trees?
200
Begun as a response to the massive ficus tree removals on 24th Street in San Francisco's Mission District, this volunteer organization has been watering nearly 200 new trees since 2021
What is Mission Verde?
300
This red-headed beauty's work can be seen in the wooded structures around Phoenix Lake
What is the Acorn Woodpecker?
300
This is the term for the practice of public participation and collaboration in scientific research to increase scientific knowledge
What is Citizen Science?
300
On a 100-year timescale, this gas has 28 times greater global warming potential than carbon dioxide and is 84 times more potent on a 20-year timescale.
What is methane?
300
Phoenix Lake, Alpine Lake, Kent Lake and Nicasio Reservoir are 4 of the 7 bodies of water that make up this critical component of our infrastructure
What is the Marin watershed?
300
The approximate age of the tree Branson lights at the Winter Arts Festival every year
What is 276 years?
300
Samuel P. Taylor State Park, Tomales Bay State Park,
Angel Island State Park and Point Reyes National Seashore are a few examples of these
What are parks conserved by Marin Conservation League?
400
Pelicans, egrets, bobbing ducks and a number of other birds were spotted here during the Urban Ecology immersive
What are the Corte Madera marshes?
400
This refers to a method of farming that helps to combat attacks from pests and weeds
What is crop rotation?
400
The new and inventive machine that separates cardboard & plastic from food waste, allowing MRC to properly dispose of large pallets of unused food
What is The Tiger?
400
The name of the reservoir that provides water to 2.7 million residents and businesses of the San Francisco Bay Area (SF, Alameda and San Mateo counties)
What is Hetch Hetchy reservoir?
400
In addition to the remaining ficus trees, what are the two types of trees planted along the 24th Street Latino Cultural District, as determined by a community process?
What are maples and gingkos?
400
The Corte Madera Town Hall, College of Marin, Redwood High School and Marin General's parking lot were once part of the expansive tidal wetlands known by this name
What are the Corte Madera marshes?
500
On the banks of San Pablo Bay, outside of Target, intrepid Branson explorers delighted in observing two mother birds of this species attempting to wrangle their meandering brood
What are black-necked stilts?
500
The term refers to undomesticated organisms or animals (such as a mouse, pigeon or raccoon) that live in close association with people and benefit from their surroundings and activities
What are synanthropes?
500
These are the least reused items at the Marin Recycling Center
What are clamshells?
500
An example of this is where the Ross Creek empties into the Corte Madera Creek
What is a fish barrier?
500
Recent research by Suzanne Simard has shown these thin fungal filaments allow trees to communicate with one another via an underground "Wood-wide web"
What are mychorrizae?
500
This plucky lady was one of the 4 founders of Marin Conservation League, with the tallest peak on Angel Island bearing her name
Who is Caroline Livermore?
