Native Plants
Invasive Plants
Birds
Marine Species
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100

This grass is known as an "ecological engineer" due tp its ability to stabilize mudflats.

What is spartina?

100

This invasive species can be used as an herbal remedy tea.

What is mugwort?

100

This bird's near extinction was the inspiration for the National Audubon SOciety.

What is the Great Egret?

100

This marine species is crucial to their environments due to its filtering capabilities.

What are Oysters?

100

This object helps viewers see details too small to see with the naked eye. 

What is the Microscope?

200

This plant is crucial to monarch butterfly survival.

What is milkweed?

200

This invasive species is the preferred host plant for the spotted lanternfly.

What is the tree of heaven?

200

This bird was prevented from going extinct due to the heir of the Tabasco fortune.

What is the Snowy Egret?

200

This marine organism can aid in climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon.

What is sugar kelp?

200

This object prevents drowning. 

What is a PFD?

300

This species is loved by many animals due to it dropping yummy seed pods. 

What is a honey locust?

300

This invasive species is particularly hard to eliminate due to its large, hardy root system comprised of spreading rhizomes. 

What is japanese knotweed?

300

This bird is the biggest of its type in North America.

What is the Great Blue Heron?

300

The females of this marine species only mate once in their life.

What is the Blue Crab?

300

This fashionable article of clothing allows the wearer to walk deep into water without getting wet.

What are waders?

400

This native plant is an ecological "pioneer".

What are Black Eyed Susans?

400

This invasive species is problematic due to its tendency to create a monoculture in the area it is introduced to. 

What is phragmites?

400

This bird can digest small turtles due to its strong stomach acids.

What is the Yellow-Crowned Night Heron?

400

This marine species is catadromous. 

What is the American Eel?

400

This tool determines the turbidity of the water.

What is the Secchi Disk?

500

Cherokee and other Native American populations boil the roots like potatoes for consumption. 

What is the Common Evening Primrose?

500

This invasive species is problematic due partially to its extreme flammability when dried.

What is Chinese Silvergrass?

500

These birds are known for hunting nocturnally.

What is the Black-Crowned Night Heron?

500

Cloud once called this species the "Silverback Gorilla".

What is the Atlantic Silverside?

500

This tool can be used to measure oysters and other bivalves.

What are Calipers?