Critter Cam
Habitat Lingo
Plant Power
What's that sound?
Habitat Homes
100
What is northern bobwhite?
100
The number of animals that can exist in any give area or ecosystem with the available habitat there.
What is carrying capacity?
100
Areas of land where crops or forages are planted with the specific intent of providing food for wildlife.
What are Food plots?
100
What is wild turkey?
100
This large mammal is a habitat generalist, found in cities, forests, and farms throughout the state where they are prized as a game species for food and their beautiful antlers.
What is a white-tailed deer?
200
What is dickcissel?
200
A place where two or more vegetation types or successional stages meet where many wildlife thrive.
What is edge habitat?
200
Many people call these plants wildflowers, but wildlife biologists usually use this four-letter word to describe flowering plants in the prairie.
What are forb/forbs?
200
What is a coyote?
200
This native rabbit prefers brushy cover interspersed with herbaceous openings found everywhere from sururban areas to natural areas.
What is an eastern cottontail?
300
What is largemouth bass?
300
Non-native species introduced to a new environment can often become problematic and outcompete with native vegetation, earning them this name.
What are invasive species?
300
Many plants are adapted to the feeding behavior of livestock and wild animals that this word defines.
What is grazing?
300
What is a pheasant?
300
This sunfish species likes aquatic environments with submerged rocks, woody debris, and aquatic vegetation.
What is a bluegill?
400
What is plains hog-nosed snake?
400
This wildlife habitat management practices is a common way to set back succession in forests and grasslands by using intentionally set and planned fires.
What is prescribed fire?
400
Perennial plants are those that grow back year-after year, whereas this category of plants only lives for one year
What are annual plants?
400
What is a dickcissel?
400
This small dabbling duck is associated with ephemeral wetlands, inland marshes, lakes, and ponds where they feed and rest. But their nests are in grasslands adjacent to these areas.
What is a blue-winged teal?
500
What is grasshopper sparrow?
500
A legal agreement between a landowner and a land conservation organization or government agency that places permanent restrictions on what can be done on a property.
What are conservation easements?
500
The term describing the change in composition of the plant community in a particular area over time.
What is plant succession?
500
What is a grasshopper sparrow?
500
This grassland bird was once common across Iowa but today is only found in a small reintroduced range around Ringgold County where they need very large tracts of rangeland contatining diverse grass and forb communities free of tall vertical strutures.
What is a greater prairie chicken?