Name That Place
This city processes 85% of the pumpkins for the U.S.
What is Morton?
This is how long the white oak tree can live.
What is 300-400 years?
This is the type of root system that the white oak tree has.
What is a taproot?
This is the difference in a white-tailed deer's winter and summer coloring.
What is red-brown in summer and gray-brown in winter?
This is the number of shelter dogs and cats that are euthanized (killed) each year.
What is 3-4 million?
This is where the pirogue was originally used.
What is Louisiana?
This is how long metamorphosis takes for a monarch butterfly.
What is 30 days?
This is how deep the big bluestem's roots will grow.
What is 8 feet?
This is the coloring of the Northern cardinal's eggs.
What is blue-white with red-brown speckles?
This is the estimated white tailed deer population in 2024.
What is 700,000?
In the song "Illinois", the line that mentions 'the great commercial tree' is referring to this city.
What is Chicago?
This is the length of time it takes tiger salamander larvae to hatch.
What is 3-4 weeks?
This is how deep drummer silty clay loam topsoil is.
What is 16 inches?
This is the color a giant puffball turns when it is mature.
What is brown?
This is the number of eggs a bluegill might lay.
What is 2,000 to 67,000?
This is the place that the state soil was named after.
What is Drummer Creek in Ford County?
This is how long a bluegill can live.
What is 5-6 years?
This is what the Latin word Fossilis means.
What is 'dug up'?
This is another name for pigments or colors.
What are carotenoids?
This is the number of pumpkin pies that are baked each year.
What is 50 million?
This area is where the tully monster fossils have been found.
BONUS (for another 500 points): Name three of the counties that make up the area.
What is the Mazon Creek areas?
What are Grundy, Will, Kankakee, and Livingston Counties?
This is how long a Goldrush apple will keep its crisp, firm texture and flavor.
What is 7 months or more?
These are the three layers of soil, in order from the surface, down.
BONUS (for another 500 points): This is how thick the second layer of drummer silty clay loam is.
What are topsoil, subsoil, and substratum?
BONUS: What is 2 feet or more?
These are the Illinois Saint Andrew Society Tartan colors and what they stand for.
What is green for the Scottish homeland, red for the US flag, and gold for the eagle?
This is the number of quarts of popcorn that are eaten each year.
What is 14 billion?