The Bear Necessities
Food, water, shelter, space.
What is a habitat?
A large bird species in the Accipitriformes order. This species was named after a British naturalist. It is colloquially known as the grasshopper hawk.
What is the Swainson Hawk?
Fairy Shrimp, San Joaquin Kit Fox, Giant Kangaroo rat
What is the Endangered?
Tree endemic to the State of California, growing in interior valleys and foothills. Deciduous, it requires year-round groundwater, and may live up to 600 years with thick ridged bark, resembling alligator hide.
What is Valley Oak?
Use of water to produce electricity.
What is Hydroelectricity?
Behavaioral, structural, physical.
What are adpations?
Largest habitat located in the San Joaquin Valley.
What is great Valley grasslands?
Salmon and steelhead hatcheries mitigate the effects of these?
What are Dams?
The scientific study of plants.
What is Botany?
California's largest estuary.
What is the Delta?
The maximum number of plants and animals that can be supported by a habitat or environment.
What is Carrying Capacity?
Main reason for habitat loss in northern CA?
What is development or urban growth?
Oil, Natural Gas, Coal
What are non-renewable resources?
Brushy habitat in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.
What is Chaprall?
Heavy rain, strong winds and off trail hiking can cause this.
What is erosion?
The variety and abundance of different species of plants and animals.
What is Biodiversity?
The continental highway in the sky for birds in California.
What is the Pacific Flyway.
Re-creating a habitiat that has been damaged.
What is restoration or connvservation?
Water, sunlight and CO2.
What is photosynthesis?
3 aquatic habitats in the San Joaquin Valley ecosystem.
What are vernal pools, Alkali Sink, San Joaquin Delta?
Plants are called this because they make their own food.
What are producers?
Most of the water in California's watershed ends in.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
A rare seasonal wetland habitat occurring on grassland, where an impenetrable layer of soil ponds rainwater in winter and spring. Highly adapted plant and animal species live here.
What is Vernal Pool?
Plants like scotch broom and yellow star thistle.
What is invasive?
How household chemicals and pesticides get into our water supply?
What is Runoff?