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College of Ecology
Wholesome Habitats
Absolutely Avian
Invertebrates are In
Coastal Cornucopia
100
Bottom of the Topography of Florida.
What is Karst?
100
A match is lighted every few years
What is prescribed burn?
100
This bird loves shellfish…Oysters anyone?
What is an American Oystercatcher?
100
Ctenophors that are often mistaken for jellyfish, but have no stinging cells.
What are comb jellies?
100
Often seen soaring a mere 10 to12-ft overhead along the Sunshine Skyway.
What is a Brown Pelican?
200
The loss of water from the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, transpiration and the return of water by precipitation
What is the hydrological cycle?
200
These coastal upland habitats benefit from prescribed burns.
What is maritime forests, transitional zone, fore dune and beach
200
Loves to tag along with groups of kayakers.
What is the Double-crested Cormorant?
200
A swimming bivalve that has primitive vision.
What is a scallop?
200
Burning fossil fuels contributes to this ocean threat.
What is ocean acidification?
300
The sun and the moon
What is what causes tides?
300
So, you're not (a plant or animal) from around here....
What is exotic or nonnative?
300
This bird is a real comedian.
What is the Laughing Gull?
300
A decapod who carries his borrowed home with him.
What is a hermit crab.
300
Some might call me a “snow” bird.
What is the Snowy Egret?
400
The 3 major classifications of coastal systems
What is marine, coastal uplands and estuarine?
400
70-80% of Florida's commercial marine species begin here.
What is an estuary?
400
IBM’s nick name could apply just as easily to me.
What is the Great Blue Heron?
400
An invertebrate whose decline has been linked to a decline in Floridas coral reefs.
What is sea urchin?
400
Contrary to popular belief, these marine ‘rocks’ are actually animals.
What is coral?
500
A community of organisms interacting with one another
What is an ecosystem?
500
This exotic and invasive grass also contributes to threat of wildfire.
What is cogon grass?
500
I have a US Marine Corps aircraft named after me.
What is the Osprey?
500
The only predator that will eat a nudibranch.
What is a nudibranch?
500
They share these characteristics: warm blooded animal, possesses hair, vertebrate and mammary glands
What are mammals?