Aquatics
Centrarchidae is the scientific name for what fish family.
What is the sunfish?
This is the person who manages woodlands, looks at all things the forest provides, and their goal is to provide more benefits from the forest.
What is a forester?
This bird's song sounds like a flute saying "Here, come right here, dear".
What is a Baltimore Oriole?
Alternate, Opposite, and Whorled are all examples of this.
What are leaf arrangements?
The white-breasted nuthatch finds it food by doing this.
What is creeps along trunks and branches probing the bark for food?
There are ___ sunfish family species in Pennsylvania.
What is 17?
Forests are a ________ because they can regrow and renew themselves.
What is a renewable resource?
This bird doesn't build a nest. They lay their eggs in tree holes made by woodpeckers, squirrels, fungus or rot. Also lays in nest boxes.
What is an eastern-screech owl?
When the ice melts, fish move into shallow areas on the north side of a pond. These areas are the first that the sun warms in this season.
What is spring?
When clouds get heavy enough the moisture in the clouds starts to _____.
What is precipitate?
Name at least 3 members of the sunfish family that aren't bass.
What is redear sunfish, bluegill, mud sunfish, warmouth, green sunfish, pumpkinseed, redbreast sunfish, longear sunfish, blackbanded sunfish, white crappie, black crappie, bluespotted sunfish, banded sunfish, rock bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, spotted bass?
Dendrology is...
What is the science of tree identification?
What is the male= bright orange with black head, back and wings with white bars; female= usually brown on top and slightly orange underneath with white bars on wings?
A string of tiny flowers, usually yellow or green. This type of flower usually spreads its pollen in the wind.
What is catkin?
This is the study of how soils, sunlight, water, and other parts of nature work together to make a unique forest.
What is forest ecology?
Name two characteristics of the sunfish family.
What is: males construct and guard a nest, pan-shaped, rough-edged scales, two-section dorsal fin with spiny rays near the front, most prefer warmer water temperatures?
The scientific system of classifying and naming plants.
What is taxonomy?
Name 3 types of food the eastern-screech owl eats.
What are small animals including birds, mammals, insects, frogs, and lizards?
This means that they have still or standing water.
What are Lentic Ecosystems (Ponds & Lakes)?
Solid gray on head, back, and sides. White belly and pine pink beak. Female is lightly browner than male. These describe what bird.
What is the dark-eyed junco?
What is: rock bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and spotted bass?
All living things are divided into two big groups called ______ and the smallest group is called ______.
What is kingdoms and species?
We learn about the diet of an eastern screech-owl by observing their _____.
What are oval pellets?
A type of fruit having a single seed enclosed in a hard shell enclosed in a soft juicy flesh. (Examples: cherries and peaches).
What is a drupe?
A forests layers consist of these three layers of plants.
What are the canopy, the understory, and the forest floor?