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Phases and Seasons of Vernal Pools
Vernal Pool Facts
Vernal Vocab
Protozoa
Mystery
100
During this season, vernal pools receive lots of precipitation.
What is winter.
100
Vernal pools dry up because water ________.
What is evaporates.
100
Bits of dead plants and animals.
What is detritus?
100
This is the color of chlorophyll.
What is GREEN?
100
What animal do all vernal pools lack?
What are fish?
200
During this phase, vernal pools have lots of water.
What is the wet phase.
200
The water in a vernal pool is usually _______.
What is clean?
200
Animals without backbones.
What are invertebrates?
200
These protozoa are non-mobile.
What are sporozoa?
200
Amoeba use these to move....
What are pseudopods?
300
Vernal Pools are most active during this season.
What is spring.
300
Vernal is a Latin word meaning ______?
What is spring?
300
An environment and its community of plants and animals.
What is and ecosystem?
300
These tiny threads help ciliate to move.
What are cilia?
300
This protozoa uses a long thin cellular appendage to move.
What is a flagellate?
400
During this phase animals that visit the vernal pools dine on small aquatic animals.
What is the flowing phase.
400
All vernal pools have this layer at the bottom of them.
What is hard pan?
400
Vernal pools dry up because the water......
What is evaporates?
400
Protozoa who create their own food make......
What is chlorophyll?
400
These small magical sounding creatures live in vernal pools but can't actually fly.
What are fairy shrimp?
500
During the summer and fall, vernal pools are in what phase?
What is the dry phase.
500
Large humps of soil in the grassland are called _________?
What are mima mounds?
500
An animal that tells us the health of an ecosystem in an......
What is an indicator species?
500
Most protozoa can not produce their own food so they are _______.
What is heterotrophic?
500
This amphibian resembles a lizard but is scaleless and covered with a soft moist skin and breaths by gills in the larval stage.
What is a SALAMANDER!