Agricultural
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Wildlife
What Do You Know About H2O
Ecosystem Concepts
100
Agriculture that does not involve tilling. The most extreme form of conservation tillage.
What is no till?
100
The plant structure that many species use to anchor themselves to soil and absorb water and nutrients
Roots
100
Give the full name of this animal (2x bonus for scientific name)
eastern gray squirrel
Sciurus carolinensis
100
Name one of Earth's oceans
Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, or Southern
100
the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiveristy?
200
The cultivation of only one type of crop in a given area at a given time
monoculture
200
Smallest of the three soil particles. It's less than 0.002 mm in diameter
What is a clay?
200
This semiaquatic mammal named for its habitat in flowing waterways is mostly piscivorous. They may be cute but do not touch!
North American river otter
(Lontra canadensis)
200
It’s a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean
What is a watershed
200
a species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
What is a keystone species?
300
Fish farming
What is aquaculture?
300
A distinct layer of soil
What is a soil horizon?
300
name this bird (state bird Indiana)
(2x points for scientific name)
northern cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalis
300
Most of Earth's fresh water is located in this
Ice / Glaciers
300
What is Chaparral?
400
The practice of plowing furrows sideways across a hillside, perpendicular to its slope (contour farming) is one method to help prevent the formation of rills and gullies by this process
erosion
400
The base geological material in a particular location.
What is parent material.
400
This arachnid is common in the eastern United States and can spread Lyme disease. Watch out!
deer tick
Ixodes scapularis
400
a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period of time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the atmosphere.
What is ocean acidification?
400
Term for organisms that modify, maintain and/or create habitat 
What are ecosystem engineers?
500
A form of agriculture that uses large scale mechanization and fossil fuel combustion to cultivate, harvest, transport, etc.
What is industrial agriculture?
500
The number of microorganism species in 1 gram of soil. Your best guess
6,000-50,000
500
This grouse species has been extirpated from Indiana for 50 years. Its common name comes from its habitat and comparison to a domestic bird.
prairie chicken
Tympanuchus cupido
500
the excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of algae and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
What is eutrophication?
500
This largest terrestrial biome on earth is dominated by coniferous forests
What is Boreal or Taiga?