BIRDS
This small white coastal bird has a black bill and yellow feet
What is a Snowy Egret?
Florida's State Saltwater Fish
What is the Sailfish?
Invertebrates encompass animals without this structure
What is a vertebral or spinal column?
A grouping name for genetically dissimilar halophytic coastal trees
What are Mangroves?
The typical salinity of sea water in parts per thousand
What is 35 parts per thousand?
This bird is all white as a juvenile with green legs and feet but turns blue as an adult
What is a Little Blue Heron?
Nerve sensory network for motion detection located along the sides of bony fishes
What is the Lateral Line?
An organism which spends some of it's life cycle attached to a hard substrate.
What is a Sessile organism?
Characterized by producing dense cream white flowers which turn into button-like seed clusters
What are Buttonwoods?
Water terminology to denote fresh and saltwater mixing
What is Brackish?
This shore bird fakes a broken wing to lure predators from its nest
What is a Plover?
The name of a toxin 1000 times more potent than cyanide found in puffer fish
Tetrodotoxin
A tissue structure in all mollusks where shell material is produced
What is the Mantle?
Florida's most abundant native Palm tree
What is the Sabal or Cabbage Palm
Terminology used to denote a haziness in water due to suspended solids
What is turbidity?
Coastal Florida raptors that are able to hover and plunge feet first into the water to catch fish
What are Ospreys?
An aquarium fish from the pacific released into Florida's waters which has become dangerously invasive
What are Lionfish?
Horseshoe crabs are being overharvested for this valuable substance that they produce.
What is their blood?
Sea oats are protected in Florida because.....?
They help to stabilize dunes
A black and white disk used to measure water clarity and Turbidity
What is a Secchi disk?
True or false, pelicans have no problem eating fish with large bones
False
Taxonomic group name for all cartilaginous fish
Chondrichthyes
A type of rigid covering supporting and protecting organisms
What is their exoskeleton?
True or False-Australian Pines are native to the Florida coastal areas
FALSE
True or false, the volume of water is not affected by it's temperature
FALSE