Forestry
Part of the tree that provides surface area to absorb water and nutrients.
What are root hairs?
A measure of the average energy (kinetic) of water molecules
What is Temperature?
A small, natural hill.
What is a knoll?
Paired bony structures on the cervidae families frontal skulls that can be shed and regrown.
What are antlers?
Species introduced into canada's forests within recent history
What is an Alien Species?
These are located at the tip of a twig and regulate the growth of other buds on the same twig using growth regulators
What are terminal buds?
A long, skinny organ that can inflate/deflate with air allowing fish to float at different levels in the water column.
What is the Swim Bladder?
The sequence of soils from hilltop to valley floor.
What is a Soil Catena?
The wildlife monitoring method in which a camera is automatically triggered by motion
What are Camera Traps?
The controlled application of fire on the landscape to achieve specific cultural objectives.
What is Cultural Burning?
Food products, such as sugars, that are produced in photosynthesis
What are Photosynthates?
The largest catch of fish that can be taken while leaving a self-sustaining population.
What is the Maximum Sustainable Yield?
The accumulation of carbon in Gleysols caused by anaerobic conditions like poor drainage and water logging.
What is Gleization?
What type of adaptation is an internal action the body takes unconsciously to benefit itself?
What is a Physiological Adaptation?
The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, culture, income, etc. with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of protective environmental laws, regulations and policies
What is Environmental Justice?
Vascular tissue in trees that transport water and minerals throughout the tree, becoming the sapwood as they mature and die off
What are Xylem cells?
A species for which there is insufficient information to support status designation under SARA.
What is Data Deficient?
Soil horizons in which the deposition of iron-organic compounds and clay can clog soil pores and solidify into a near-solid mass.
What are Duric or Placic horizons?
What organization provides Canadians with a single, scientifically sound classification of wildlife species at risk of extinction?
What is COSEWIC (committee on the status of endangered wildlife in Canada)?
A type of planning document that includes project activities for the next 5 year, are intended to guide the integration of activities among different operators.
What is a General Development Plan (GDP)?
A group of non-flowering plants who's seeds are typically formed in unisexual cones and are known as “naked”
What are Gymnosperms?
The transition zone of water between the warm upper layer of water and cold underlayer of water.
What is the Metalimnion?
Soils where deposition of eroded soil occurs in lower slope positions, and the upper soil layer becomes unnaturally over- thickened
What are Cumulic soils?
A common infection in wild birds like waterfowl that spreads to domestic poultry and results in high mortality.
What is H5 Avian Influenza?
A global scenario that involves medium emissions and includes measures to limit (mitigate) climate change. This scenario indicates global average warming levels of 1.7 to 3.2°C by 2090.
What is Representative Concentrative Pathway RCP4.5?