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Where it's At
Who's Who
Wild Places
Everything Changes
What we do
100
A space which includes food, water, and shelter, suitable for the survival and reproduction of an organism.
What is Habitat?
100
A community of organisms where each member is eaten, in turn, by another member
What is Food Chain
100
The name given to trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area;land that is covered with trees and shrubs
What is Forest
100
A factor present in the environment that is in short supply and limits growth or some other life process of an organism.
What is a Limiting Factor
100
A person who practices the science, art, and profession of managing a forest.
What is a Forester
200
A group of interacting organisms sharing an environment.
What is a Community?
200
An animal that is killed and eaten by another animal
What is Prey
200
Where water is present atleast part of the year - generally for atleast the portion of plant growing season.
What is Wetlands
200
The maximum number of animals that a specific habitat or area can support without causing deterioration or degradation of the habitat.
What is Carrying Capacity
200
The largest federal land management agency in the United States.
What is the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
300
A natural unit consisting of all plants, animals and micro-organisms in an area functioning together with all of the physical factors of the environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
300
An animal that lives by capturing, killing, and eating other animals for food
What is PREDATOR
300
In biology, this is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by plant crowns.
What is Tree Canopy
300
This is the application of scientific knowledge and technical skills to protect, conserve, limit, enhance, or create wildlife habitat.
What is Wildlife Management
300
A Person who studies wild animals and their habitats.
What is a Wildlife Biologist
400
The variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire Earth.
What is Biodiversity?
400
Plants are given this name because they are able to use light energy from the Sun to produce food (sugar) from carbon dioxide and water.
What is a producer
400
The name given to the job or role of an organism in its community.
What is Niche
400
Reestablishing a forest by planting or seeding an area from which forest vegetation has been removed.
What is Reforestation
400
This helps ensure future generations can enjoy our resources.Can include consumptive activities such as hunting, fishing, trapping, and harvesting timber as well as non-consumptive activities such as bird watching, photography, and hiking. Both impact wildlife issues between populations.
What is Wildlife Conservation
500
Est. in 1980, was aquired in an effort to conserve the largest privately owned tracts of bottomland hardwood.
What is Tensas River NWR?
500
Animals are given this name because they cannot make their own food so they must eat plants and/or other animals. These can be divided into three groups
What is a consumer
500
This represents the historic floodplain and valley of the lower Mississippi River covering portions of Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee
What is the Mississippi River Alluvial Valley
500
The gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established.
What is Succession
500
The scientific name: Ursus Americanus luteolus.A protected threatened species that lives in and around the Tensas River NWR.
What is the Louisiana Black Bear