SCA Bay Area
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Groups of Animals
SCA
100
Our leaders travel across the bay from San Francisco to Hayward in the East Bay by ferry and by car. If they are driving, they cross over 1 of the 2 famous bridges - name that bridge.
What is the Bay Bridge?
100
This creature because Washington DC's Official State Amphibian in 2024, thanks to the advocacy of local elementary school students.
What is the Eastern Red-backed Salamander?
100
Find the invasive to PA species in this list: Spring Beauty, Northern Flying Squirrel, Snakehead, Carolina Mantis, Red-Eared Slider, Porcelain Berry
What is Snakehead, Porcelain Berry, and Red-Eared Slider?
100
A group of crows.
What is a murder?
100
The full name of the SCA.
What is the Student Conservation Association?
200
The Bay Area has over 400 miles of shoreline, of that total a small percentage of living shoreline and natural habitat is left due to urban development and landfill over the decades. Name 2 general causes of shoreline degradation in the Bay Area.
What are 1) sea level rise (causes flooding, erosion of shoreline) and 2) pollution (nutrient run off from farming, trash and dumping, sewage overflows)
200
Washington DC is home to this many National Park units.
What is 5? (ROCR, CHOH, GWMP, NACE, NAMA)
200
Name this bird, which although a rare sight, can be seen at John Heinz NWR.
What is glossy ibis?
200
A group of beavers.
What is a colony or family?
200
Founder of the SCA.
Who is Liz Putnam?
300
The names of the 2 main rivers that converge into the Bay Area Delta - their combined flow travels west to form Suisun Bay, the San Pablo Bay and out through the San Francisco Bay.
What are the 1) Sacramento River from the north, and the 2) San Joaquin River from the south?
300
This Native American tribe, whose name means 'town of traders', lived and stewarded what is currently the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. They were later absorbed into the larger Piscataway tribe.
Who is the Nacotchtank tribe?
300
The number of federally recognized tribes in PA.
What is 0?
300
A group of cardinals.
What is a college, conclave, radiance, Vatican, or deck?
300
There are six core values of the SCA - name one.
What is Bold Vision, Respectful of the Land, Integrity, Belonging and Connection, Collaboration, or Safety and Preparedness? (must be EXACT name of one of these listed here).
400
The National Park closest to the Bay Area.
What is Pinnacles National Park (2-2.5 hours)?
400
Founded in 1890, this park is was the 3rd National Park founded in the United States.
What is Rock Creek Park?
400
John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge is known as the first urban wildlife refuge, but it is not the first federal wildlife refuge - name the first.
What is Pelican Island?
400
A group of foxes.
What is a skulk or leash?
400
The number of people in the top picture on the SCA homepage currently.
What is 5?
500
The Bay Area team is moving out of their office at the end of this year in Berkeley called the DBC, the"____" "____" Center. Name the native Californian environmentalist the center is named after.
Who is David Browe?
500
Stretching 184.5 Miles, this National Historical Park hosted the DC community program's first conservation crew, starting in the 1970s.
What is the C&O Canal?
500
One of the animals that Darien most loves - the North American Beaver - is famous for building dams. The longest beaver dam in the world is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, Canada and measures this length in feet.
What is 2,790 feet? (Will accept answers between 2600 and 2900).
500
A group of woodpeckers.
What is a descent?
500
The full name of the other SCA organization that comes up when you Google SCA.
What is the Society for Creative Anachronism?