Formation and features
forbs
Mammals
Reptiles and Amphibians
Birds
100

The area of public land in the Badlands is about the size of what state?

What is Delaware?

100

What flower opens in the evening and pollinated by night flying insects?

What is the gumbo lily?

100

Which animal makes its home in the steep cliffs and buttes of the Badlands?

What is the bighorn sheep?

100

What is the only venomous snake in North Dakota?

What is the prairie rattlesnake?

100

Which raptor can dive at speeds of more than 100 MPH?

What is the golden eagle?

200
Lignite coal that burned underground formed a type of red rock called what?

What is Clinker?

200

What is the common gray-silver shrub that several species depend on for food and shelter called?

What is sagebrush?

200

Which animals underground den includes bedrooms and separate toilet room?

What is the American Badger?

200
Which lizard lives in areas that have sagebrush and large patches of bare ground?

What is the norther sagebrush lizard?

200

What is the smallest song bird found living in sandstone and rock outcroppings?

What is the mountain bluebird?

300
What are the three fossil fuels that were formed by fossilized remains?

What is petroleum (oil), coal, and natural gas?

300

What plant and insect have a symbiotic relationship?

What is the Yucca and the Yucca moth?

300

What is the most common wildcat in North America?

What is the bobcat?

300

Which snake moves very fast?

What is the racer?

300

What is the largest sandpiper in North Dakota?

What is the long-billed curlew?

400

What river originally flowed north until a glacier blocked its path and it was forced to flow east?

What is the Little Missouri River?

400

What was used to make tea to treat headaches, rattlesnake bites, and poison ivy?

What is the yellow coneflower?

400

What is the fastest running animal on the planet; running over 60 MPH?

What is the pronghorn?

400

Which snake is a constrictor and squeezes its prey until it can no longer breath?

What is the bullsnake?

400

Which songbird is part of the crow family?

What is the black-billed magpie?

500

What is a tall, thin pillar of rock with a capstone, or flat rock, on its top called?

What is a hoodoo?

500

What flower was used to make a paste to rub on your hands to prevent them from burning when removing meat from boiling water?

What is the Scarlet globemallow?

500

What animal is sometimes called a pack rat?

What is the bushy-tailed woodrat?

500

Which animal has the defense mechanism of inflating its body twice its size and shoots blood out its eyes?

What is the short-horned lizard?

500

What are the two species of grouse that live in the Badlands?

What is the sage grouse and the sharp-tailed grouse?