Plants
These are special characteristics of plants (& animals) that help them to survive.
What are Adaptations?
An area where saltwater and freshwater come together and mix.
What is an estuary?
The type of bee that is not a part of a colony or hive. (hint: the majority of bees exhibit this behavior)
What are solitary bees?
What causes the oceans tide.
What is the moon?
The process of removing invasive plants to help return a habitat to a more natural state.
What is Restoration?
The three major methods of seed dispersal.
What is wind dispersal, animal dispersal, and water dispersal?
The series of dunes and ridges paralleling the beach.
What is the Foredunes?
Three nocturnal animals whose tracks you may come across on the dunes.
What are (grey) foxes, skunks, and raccoons?
The outcome of planting European Beachgrass into dune ecosystems.
What is stabilizing dunes?
This group of Native Americans has been living around the Humboldt Bay longer then any other people. In their language, the name of Humboldt Bay is Wigi (wee-gee).
Who are The Wiyot?
The three invasive plants of focus in Humboldt dune ecosystems.
What are European beachgrass, yellow bush lupine, and iceplants?
The habitat that is exposed in Humboldt Bay during low tide.
What are mudflats?
This dog-like predator lives in the dunes and conserves energy by walking in its own footprints.
What is a Grey Fox?
Constantly shaped by wind and storm tides, coastal dunes rely on movement and natural erosion to survive, proving they are not static but rather these biological communities.
What are dynamic ecosystems?
European Beachgrass was planted to protect these. (Hint: After trees were cut down in the forest, they were sent here to be processed)
What are Lumber Mills?
Yellow bush lupine aids in the success of other weedy plants by creating nutrient rich substrate through this chemical process.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The two main tree species that that make up dune forests.
What is Sitka spruce and beach pine?
Two out of the four primary pressures that threaten Western Snowy Plover populations.
What is habitat degradation, predation, human disturbance, and inclement weather?
Two of the four main tributaries streams that runoff into the bay.
What is Jacoby Creek, Freshwater Creek, Salmon Creek, and the Eel River?
The two sites on the North Spit of Humboldt Bay that are great examples of successful restoration of dune ecosystems.
What are Lanphere and Ma-l'el Dunes?
What plant is closely associated with the Acmon blue butterfly?
What is Beach Buckwheat?
This habitat forms when the summer wind has removed the sand down to the water table, allowing water-loving plants to move in.
What is Hollows/Swale?
The name that describes species of bees that only pollinate specific species of plants.
What is Oligolectic?
The chemical that causes the rotten egg odor in mudflats.
What is the hydrogen sulfide?
The study of dune restoration first began at the Lanphere Dunes in the late years of this decade.
What is the 1970's?