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97% of the earth's water is this kind, making it unfit for human consumption.
what is saltwater?
This kind of plant has a compound leaf with three leaflets, alternately arranged.
What is poison ivy?
This is a word used to describe a species that is at risk of extinction
What is endangered?
The actions and behavior of this species will determine the fate of one of the world's most precious resources, freshwater!
What are humans?
This is an area of land that water flows across or through
What is a watershed?
This kind of habitat is made up of saw palmetto, sparse pine, many different scrub oaks and wire grass.
What is scrubby flatwoods?
This kind of tortoise is not a water animal, it lives on land, has strong forelimbs that help it dig burrows, and it is a keystone species here in Florida.
What is the Gopher Tortoise?
This is the location (city) of Florida's only naturally occurring warm mineral spring.
What is North Port, Florida?
These are locations where groundwater visibly flows to the Earth's surface. They are windows into the aquifers beneath us.
What are springs?
A tree can have an opposite arrangement, this kind of arrangement, or a world arrangement
What is an alternate arrangement?
This is the Florida Black Bear's primary food source.
What are plants?
This is the source of the greatest known concentration of springs on earth.
What is the Florida Aquifer?
3% of the water on earth is freshwater. Out of 100% of the freshwater on earth, 22% of the freshwater on earth is this kind?
What is groundwater?
This is a non-native plant species in Central Florida's wetlands that has no natural controls. Because of this, they out compete native plants in the wetlands. This causes areas that would normally have many- if not hundreds- of species growing to only have a couple species of plants growing.
What is Skunk Vine?
This nearly wiped out the roseate spoonbill population at the end of the 19th century
what are plume hunters / what is plume hunting?
This ecosystem is a watershed made up of three vital parts: the Kissimmee river, lake Okeechobee, and the Everglades.
What is the Everglades ecosystem?