Pink and white in color, this flower blooms on a fruit tree and has been deemed Michigan’s state flower.
What is the Apple Blossom?
100
This brightly colored bird, native to the lower peninsula of Michigan, makes its habitat in areas that were previously clear-cut or where wildfires have occurred.
What is the Kirtland Warbler?
100
This state is the only one in the United States that contains more shoreline than Michigan.
What is Alaska?
100
These are the names of the five Great Lakes.
What is Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
100
This is the most abundant greenhouse gas thought to be affecting our atmosphere.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
200
Due to its fast growing rhizomes and its ability to respond to constantly shifting sands, this plant is critical to a sand dunes ecosystem.
What is Beach Grass or Marram Grass?
200
Discovered near Detroit in 2002, this invasive insect is responsible for killing more than 30 million ash trees in Michigan.
What is the Emerald Ash Borer?
200
This is known as Michigan’s state stone and is found most commonly along the shores of Lake Michigan.
What is the Petoskey stone?
200
Within the state of Michigan, this metal is found almost exclusively within the western Upper Peninsula and has even deemed a name there called the “____ Country.”
What is copper?
200
This anthropogenic activity emits the largest quantity of greenhouse gases in the state of Michigan.
What is energy use?
300
Used by Native Americans to cure liver diseases, this flat leafed fungus is commonly found in the Upper Peninsula.
What is the Liverwort?
300
This frog that ranges in color from yellowish-green to olive to brown lacks dorsolateral folds and is the largest frog found in Michigan.
What is the Bull Frog?
300
This famous geological land form rises 460 feet above Lake Michigan.
What is the Sleeping Bear Dunes?
300
For more than 160 years, a mining operation in Michigan has been the largest North American supplier of this mineral.
What is iron?
300
In Michigan, it is projected that by the end of the century summer temperatures will have risen approximately how many degrees Fahrenheit?
What is 7-13?
400
This parasitic plant does not produce chlorophyll, therefore embeds its root-like structures into the branches of the Black Spruce tapping into the vascular tissue for nourishment.
What is the Dwarf Mistletoe?
400
This four-legged salamander found all over Michigan is easily identifiable by the external gills it has during its adult phase.
What is the Mudpuppy?
400
In August 2013, a proposal to build an underground nuclear waste repository was put forth to be built in Kincardine, Ontario and has the potential to affect which Great Lake?
What is Lake Huron?
400
This fish, with an average weight of 30-40 pounds, was introduced into the Great Lakes in the 1870’s and begins its life in rivers and remains there for one year before migrating to the Lakes.
What is the Chinook Salmon?
400
These are the three major elements that a climagraph records in order to predict and pinpoint climatic patterns for a specific area.
What is temperature, precipitation, and the length of seasons?
500
When flowering, this prolific invasive plant produces a clump of vibrant violet or purple six-petaled flowers and is similar in appearance to an iris.
What is the Water Hyacinth?
500
There are several rattlesnakes found in the United States, but this relatively timid venomous snake is the only rattler found in Michigan.
What is the Massasauga?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!! The Great lakes contain ___% of the Earth’s fresh water
What is 18?
500
As well as making up one of the largest salt accumulations in the world, this salt bed is Michigan’s thickest and underlies most of the Lower Peninsula.
What is the Salina Formation?
500
The change in the balance between solar radiation entering the atmosphere and the Earth’s radiation going out.