Tools of the Trade
A raised landform used to prevent water from entering an area of land.
What is a berm, levee, or dike?
The physical environment in which an organism resides, which provides food, water, and shelter.
What is habitat?
The transport of rock, soil, and debris across Earth's surface through wind and water.
What is erosion?
A type of plant or animal that rapidly spreads and displaces native species.
What is an invasive species?
The area or region that is drained by a river or stream.
What is a watershed?
The term for the physical morphology of an ecosystem.
What is structure?
The process of fertilization for flowering plants, often completed by animals, wind, or water.
What is pollination?
Bottomlands adjacent to a stream which may be periodically inundated.
What is a floodplain?
The botanical term for the outside edge of a leaf.
What is the leaf margin?
An endangered animal "family" for which many stream restoration projects are designed as habitat.
What are salmonids?
A marshy depression between ridges.
What is a swale?
The process by which a species replicates without fertilization.
What is asexual reproduction?
A type of plant that has underground storage structures such as bulbs, corms, tubers, and rhizomes.
What is a geophyte?
A three-part sequence of structural features in a stream.
What is pool-riffle-run?
The process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.
What is ecological restoration?
A line following the lowest points in the cross-sections of a river.
What is the thalweg?