Flora
Monarch butterflies depend on this species of wildflowers, grouped under the genus Asclepias
What are milkweeds?
This mammal is the only marsupial native to the United States
What is the opossum?
The Council on Environmental Quality was established by this landmark environmental legislation
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)?
This river caught on fire at least fourteen times, leading to an increased focus on anti-pollution legislation
What is the Cuyahoga River?
This nutrient cycle has been the most disrupted by humans
What is the carbon cycle?
This invasive plant, named for its smell, is commonly found on deer trails
What is garlic mustard?
This Great Lakes insect species is a good bioindicator for water quality conditions
What are mayflies?
The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) was established by this legislation
What is the Clean Water Act?
HABs are primarily caused by these two nutrients
What are nitrates and phosphates?
This nutrient cycle is extremely dependent on the work of bacteria
What is the nitrogen cycle?
This once common tree, almost completely wiped out by a blight, is slowly rebounding as new blight-resistant trees are bred
What is the American Chestnut?
This aquatic species is the largest amphibian in Ohio
What is the hellbender?
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act is better known by this nickname
What is Superfund?
A secchi disk or a secchi tube is used to quantify this measurement of water quality
What is turbidity?
This nutrient cycle is the only one without an atmospheric component
What is the phosphorous cycle?
General Sherman, the largest single stem tree by volume on Earth, is this species of tree
What is sequoia?
Peregrine falcons do not initially grab their prey, but instead employ this strategy
What is punching their prey?
The Endangered Species Act is primarily enforced by these two federal agencies
What are US Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)?
The sinking of the surface caused by depletion of aquifers is known by this name
What is subsidence?
The Northern Hemisphere disproportionally drives this cycle
What is the carbon cycle?
The common reed, better known by this genus, is highly invasive and forms dense monocultures
What is phragmites?
This aquatic invasive species is quickly surpassing zebra mussels as the most impactful in the Great Lakes
What are quagga mussels?
The United Nations outlines this number of Sustainable Development Goals
What is 17?
These three things are the legal requirements for defining a wetland
What are seasonal inundation/saturation, hydric soils, and presence of hydrophytes?
The human disruption of this nutrient cycle has had a large impact on the formation of acid rain
What is the sulfur cycle?