The adaptation the Great Bllue Heron has so that it can find food in a different area than the Sandpiper does
What are longer legs to go into deeper water?
100
The type of plant that grows on top of another plant, often called an air plant.
What is an epiphyte?
100
Animals have different adaptations that enable them to compete more successfully in some areas but not others, this is called...
What is resource partitioning?
The way an organism utilizes a habitat's resources is referred to as its niche.
100
The three major categories of wetland habitats
What are marshes, swamps and permanent wetlands?
100
True or False- Six of the snakes found in Florida are poisonous.
What is False?
Poisonous refers to something eaten. Venomous refers to the poison venom injected by a bite or sting.
There are six venomous snakes in Florida.
200
Fresh water molluscs that are an important food source for the limpkin.
What is the apple snail?
200
The difference between a marsh and a swamp.
What is the marsh is dominated by grasses, while swamps are forested?
The type of marsh and swamp is often desribed by the type of plan that lives there, such as sawgrass marsh or cypress swamp.
200
Name two environmental/climate factors that plants have had to adapt to in order to live in a marsh.
What is the duration of the hydroperiod, water chemistry, nutrient availability, soil characteristics, and the frequency of fire?
200
3500+ only California has more
What are plant species.
Florida straddles the boundary between the tropics and temperate latitudes. Florida is totally in the coastal plain and has high biodiversity, in part due to the range of climates and animals and plants taking refuge here during the last Ice Age. BTW Florida has more varieties of trees than any other state.
200
The reason Wood Storks nest during the dry season.
What is the fact that ponds have dried up and fish are abundant and not dispersed through large pond areas.
Since tactile feeding is inefficient they need easily obtained prey to support the mother and the family. During nesting they need about 440 lb of food per day to feed themselves and fledge their young.
300
Why the storm water reservoir is not a ecological substitute for a fresh water pond.
What is the steep and rocky sides which do not provide food for wading birds and shore birds?
300
An adaptation bromeliads have to seasonal flooding in the swamps.
What is growing in the trees so they are above the flood water?
300
Three adaptations of the Bald Cypress
What are pneumataphores, knees, waxy leaves, and cones can survive in water up to a year?
300
I can be up to 40 inches long when mature making me the longest amphibian in Florida. Beware I am a major predator in freshwater wetlands. Also, looks can be deceiving, I am not a snake or an eel.
What is the Congo Eel also known as the two-toed Amphiuma?
It looks more like an eel than a salamander. Its front legs are very tiny and useless.
300
Mothers in this class of vertebrates do not remind their young to chew their food well.
What is a reptile.
Reptiles do not chew, consequently few reptiles are herbivores. Chewing increases digestibility and plant material is harder to digest.
400
The method Ibis and Woodstorks use to find food.
What is tactile feeding?
Sensitive hairs on bills
Have quick reflexes to kill fish
Sometimes also move feet to disturb prey
400
Three types of exotic invasive plants in the wetlands.
What is
Brazillian Pepper (imported for landscaping)
Old World Climbing Fern climbs into canopy and blocks light, ladder fuel that allow fire to climb to crowns of trees
Melaleuca (seeded from planes to dry the everglades)
Torpedo Grass
400
The number one threat to biological diversity worldwide is
What is loss and fragmentation of natural habitats, especially wetlands.
400
If it ain't broke don't fix it. My body form hasn't changed in 75 million years.
What is an alligator?
Their body form- snouts and powerful jaws, four well developed legs, and long, muscular tails have not changed in 75 million years.
400
Eat me and you'll likely lose your teeth, better to just let me hang out.
What is Spanish Moss.
The moss absorbs many pollutants, one of these is fluorine. Eating Spanish Moss could result in Fluorine toxicity, a form of tooth decay. One of the by products of phosphate mining in Florida is Fluorine.
500
Three adaptations the Pileated Woodpecker has so that it can drill into trees.
What are
adaptations in the head for drilling
long sticky tongues to extract larvae and insects from crevices
ridge over nostril to keep out woodchips
curved feet to hold on
stiff tail feathers to stabilize them
500
How the pitcher plant adapts to nutrient poor soil.
What is it has hairs that trap insects, and "digests" them for nutrients.
500
I am an arthropod whose legs are modified to act as oars, so I never worry about being up a creek without a paddle.
What is the Water Boatmen.
This is an aquatic true bug (it can fly) that eats mainly algae. It is found in ponds and puddles.
500
A Billion Billion
The most successful of all animal phyla
What is arthropods?
Crustacean, Insects and Arachnids
Did you know 25% of all animals are beetles?
500
A hot time in the marshes is a good thing.
Why fire is important to marshes
What is
Clears out succession species, such as dwarf cypress, which would then dominate the site?
Can burn out peat bog areas, to provide deeper pond areas in marsh.