Ecosystems in Nebraska
An ecosystem is made up of the connections between these and their environment.
What are organisms?
Nebraska has this many major rivers.
What is 4?
Nebraska has this type of Wetlands.
What is non-tidal?
Nebraska has this many national forests.
What is 2?
This is the main source of energy for all ecosystems.
What is the sun?
This river is the longest river in the United States and every Nebraska river eventually flows into it.
What is the Missouri River?
Wetlands improve water quality by doing this to pollution.
What is filtering it?
A national forest in Nebraska.
What is the Nebraska National Forest or Samuel R. McKelvie Nation Forest?
Nebraska has this many ecoregions.
What is four?
The state mammal.
What is the whitetail deer?
This percentage of Nebraska's threatened and endangered species depend on the wetlands for a habitat.
What is 70 percent?
This professor from the University of Nebraska started a project to plant trees and create forests in Nebraska.
Who is Charles E. Bessey?
Scientists say wildfires can be as beneficial as water because without wildfires this can happen to grasslands.
What is become overgrown?
What is the Niobrara River?
Nebraska is home to these diverse types of wetlands.
What are fens, oxbows, playas, marshes, and forested swamps?
Bessey believed the forest would help in these ways.
What are provide timber, increase animal habitats, and help limit soil erosion?
A physical characteristic of the land is described as...
What is a natural feature of the Earth's surface?
The names of the 4 major rivers in Nebraska.
What are the Missouri, North Platte, White River, and the Niobrara River?
These laws help protect Nebraska's wetlands.
What is the Clean Water Act, the Farm Bill, and State Title 117?
Charles Bessey's project eventually became this forest.
What is the Nebraska National Forest?