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North Dakota
Soil
Animals
Farming
Misc.
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What is North Dakota's state tree?
What is the American Elm
100
Tiny pieces of rock that serve as parent material:
What is sediment
100
More than 50 million of these animals once roamed the ND plains:
What is the buffalo or bison
100
A conservation method in which farmers grow different crops each year:
What is crop rotation
100
In 1937, which U.S. President urged states to pass laws creating soil conservation districts:
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
200
North Dakota's state flower?
What is the Wild Prairie Rose
200
List the 3 groups of soil textures:
What are: clayey, sandy and loamy (sticky)
200
The common name for the Richardson Ground Squirrel:
What is a flickertail
200
A conservation method in which farmers leave the land idel for one growing season:
What is summer fallow
200
The tallest type of tree found in ND:
What is the cottonwood
300
North Dakota's state fish
What is the Northern Pike
300
The reduction of soil quality and productivity often by human actions:
What is soil degradation
300
The name of the migration path ducks and geese follow through North Dakota:
What is the Central Flyway
300
A conservation method in which farmers plant strips of different crops:
What is strip cropping
300
This group carefully monitors and promotes wildlife populations and sets hunting seasons:
What is the ND Game and Fish Dept.
400
North Dakota's state beverage:
What is milk
400
The process of dissolved minerals and nutrients washing down through the topsoil horizon into lower layers:
What is leaching
400
Examples of this type of ND animal include the mink, otter and beaver:
What is a fur bearing animal
400
A conservation method that leaves stubble of harvested crops on the soil:
What is stubble mulching
400
This program allowed people to obtain 160 acres of land if they planted tree's on up to 7 acres:
What is the Timber Culture Act
500
North Dakota's state fruit:
What is the chokecherry
500
Highly decomposed plant and animal remains in the soil:
What is humus
500
Examples of these ND birds include: grouse, pheasants and prairie chickens:
What are upland game
500
The 3 types of windbreaks:
What are field windbreaks, wildlife windbreaks and farmstead windbreaks
500
This agency operates a tree nursery:
What is North Dakota Forest Service