Wetlands
What are the two primary ways bogs are formed?
Terrestrialization and paludification.
What are low areas on a floodplain where the beds of old streams left shallow depressions called?
Sloughs or swales
What distinguishes a lake from a pond?
A lake can have significant wave action and a definite layering of temperatures in the water.
Where to mink prefer to den?
In the burrows made by beavers or muskrats.
What senses do wild turkeys use for protection from predators?
Sight and hearing.
What are three typical annual cycles in many animals?
Migration, hibernation, and reproduction
In what ecosystem is the mountain sweet pitcher plant found?
Mountain bogs.
Why are vernal pools important breeding grounds for many amphibians?
They dry up each year and cannot support fish, which would eat the amphibians' eggs and larvae.
In what habitats are black and white crappie found?
Black crappie: piedmont reservoirs and coastal plain rivers, clear waters
White crappie: reservoirs of the Yadkin River watershed, turbid waters
What is groundhogs' preferred food?
The tender parts of new growth from a variety of wild and cultivated plants.
What are the two kinds of viviparous mammals?
Marsupials and placentals.
The regurgitated, undigested matter commonly produced by owls
Pellets
What kind of trees are dominant in a pocosin?
Pine trees.
What is a salt wedge?
Densier, saltier water at the bottom of an estuary. It moves up and down the river with the tides.
What do adult crappies eat?
What area of the country experienced a drought in the 1980s that significantly reduced mallard duck populations?
The Prairie Pothole Region.
What are two kinds of glands usually found on mammals' bodies?
Sweat glands and scent (or musk) glands.
What was the original focus of wildlife management in North Carolina?
Game animals in rural areas.
What is the largest Carolina bay in North Carolina? How deep is it?
Lake Waccamaw, 20 feet deep
Why are estuaries known as "nurseries of the sea"?
Many fish and shellfish spend their early lives in estuaries.
Largemouth bass like habitats with lots of structure. How do they use the structure?
As cover for ambush sites and to hide from larger predators
When and where do female marbled salamanders lay their eggs?
In the fall on land, in dry ponds pool, or ditches.
A bodily structure that has reduced over time and does not perform a particular function
A vestigial structure
What kinds of animals are most affected by habitat loss and fragmentation?
Large mammals, especially predators, and specialist species.
What are the sources of water for Carolina bays?
What are the characteristics of a young pond?
Little sediment, little plant life, some plankton and invertebrates, few fish.
What did North Carolina learn from an intensive stocking project in 2003-4?
They learned that natural increase was a larger factor in the growth of the population than stocking.
Why does the gray fox have a more distinct track than the red fox?
Gray foxes have little or no fur between their pads because they are adapted to a warm climate.
A physical adaptation where an animal has darker color on the top of its body and a lighter color underneath.
Countershading.
The result of chemicals transferring from lower tropic levels to higher trophic levels within a food web.
Biomagnification.