The Grass in your Class
ChloroFUN
Wildcord
100
What is the special grass we have been talking about?
Smooth Cordgrass
100
What is a plant?
A living thing made up of more than one cell and make their food from sunlight.
100
What is a watershed?
An area that drains to a common point.
200
What type of water does this special grass like to live in?
Brackish water
200
What do plants need?
Water, sunlight, air, nutrients from the soil
200
What plant grows in salt marshes?
Smooth Cordgrass!
300
What are the three reasons this special grass is important?
Provides habitat for juvenile fish
Filters and absorbs pollution from stormwater runoff
Helps prevent erosion
300
What's the difference between a plant and an animal?
Plants can use sunlight to make food.
300
Name one way the Choctawhatchee Bay watershed is used.
Swimming, fishing, boating and camping
400
What is the name of the area where this grass lives?
Intertidal zone
400
What structures do plants have?
Plants contain leaves, stems, and roots. They also can have rhizomes, flowers, and seeds
400
Name a body of water that is found in the Choctawhatchee Bay Watershed.
Turkey Creek
Choctawhatchee River
Alaqua Creek
500
What is the scientific name for this special grass?
Spartina Alterniflora
500
What is the difference between native and invasive?
Native means an organism or plant naturally lives in an environment or belongs to an environment.
Invasive means an organism or plant does not naturally live or belong to an environment.
500
What does it mean to be commercially harvested?
fish that are being caught to make money.