Are you ready to PLAY…. Jeopardy ???? Nature Bowl Edition

Native Species Glossary terms Exotics Salmon Energy JEOPARDY! Troubled Species FINALJEOPARDYFINALJEOPARDY

Native Species Black and White Bird Endemic to the Central Valley Answer

Native Species What is a yellow-billed magpie Return to start

Native Species Small rodent who’s special adaptations include the ability to drink salt water Answer

Native Species What is the Salt Marsh harvest Mouse Return to start

Native Species Two species of anadromous fish found in the Sacramento and San Juaquin Rivers Answer

Answer : Native Species What are chinook salmon, steelhead, striped bass, white sturgeon, green surgeon, and American shad Return to start

Native Species Evergreen acorn bearing tree native to woodlands of California Answer

Answer: Native Species What is a Live oak Return to start

Native Species Two animals native to California Vernal Pools Answer

Answer : Native Species What are fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp, California Tiger salamander, Return to start

Glossary Terms -100 Type of Symbiosis in which both species benifit Answer

Answer : Glossary Terms What is mutualism Return to start

Glossary Terms Evergreen trees which bear cones answer

Answer : Glossary Terms What is a conifer? Return to start

Glossary Terms Animals that are most active during dusk and dawn Answer

Answer : Glossary Terms- 300 What is crepuscular? Return to start

Glossary Terms Events that can cause the decline of a population of a species within a habitat Answer

Answer : Glossary Terms What is a limiting factor Return to start

Glossary Terms The area of land that receives and distributes rainwater into a stream, lake or river system Answer

Answer – Glossary Terms 500 What is a watershed? Return to start

Exotics Invasive amphibian exotic to California Answer

Answer : Exotics -100 What is the bullfrog? Return to start

Exotics Aquatic mammal found in California streams and rivers once hunted for its fur and meat Answer

Answer : Exotics What is the muskrat Return to start

Exotics Omniverous marsupial found in the California Central Valley Answer

Answer : Exotics What is an opossum? Return to start

Exotics Beautiful game bird descended from old world stock Answer

Answer : Exotics What is the Ring-necked pheasant? Return to start

Exotics Three reasons exotic plants are bad for the environment Answer

Answer : Exotics –What Are: Displace native species Change the way a normal ecosystem operates Can be hazardous to native fauna Reduces biodiversity Return to start

Salmon Name of the stage of a salmon after hatching from an egg. These small guys continue to feed on their yolk sac for a few weeks. Answer

Answer : Salmon What is an alevin Return to start

Salmon Three conditions which much be exactly right for an egg to survive Answer

Answer : Salmon What are temperature, oxygen level, and speed of water Return to start

Salmon Process salmon undergo when they leave the fresh water and head to the sea. Answer

Answer : Salmon What is smoltification Return to start

Salmon Name for all fish which change physically in order to survive first in fresh water and then in salt Answer

Answer : Salmon What is anadromous Return to start

Salmon Three of the many reason salmon have a small chance of survival Answer

Answer : Salmon What are: Eggs crushed Siltification and pollution Poaching Dams Natural predators Habitat distruction Return to start

Daily Double!! On to the question

Energy Two alternative energy sources found in the California Central Valley Answer

Answer : Energy What are biomass, wind, solar and geothermal Return to start

Energy Element used in production of nuclear energy Answer

Answer : Energy -200 What is uranium? Return to start

Energy Energy Source used to produce 95% of the world’s energy. Answer

Answer : Energy- 300 What are Fossil Fuels Return to start

Energy One advantage and one disadvantage to using wind power Answer

Answer : Energy Advantage: renewable, free, no pollution, can be tourist attraction Disadvantages: some day there is no wind, can kill birds, makes noise, land can be expensive. Return to start

Energy Three disadvantages to using fossil fuels Answer

Answer : Energy What are pollution, greenhouse effect, oil spills, dangers of mining, destruction of the landscape from mining, nonrenewable Return to start

Troubled Species Endangered, endemic reptile of the central valley Answer

Answer : Troubled Species What is the giant garter snake? Return to start

Troubled Species Endangered amphibian that lives in vernal pools Answer

Answer : Troubled Species What is the California Tiger Salamander Return to start

Troubled Species Most common reason that animals become endangerd Answer

Answer : Troubled Species What is habitat destruction? Return to start

Troubled Species One of three animals extirpated from Central Valley Grasslands Answer

Answer : Troubled Species What are the grizzly bear, pronghorn antelope, and grey wolf Return to start

Troubled Species Endangered insect that is endemic to the central valley and only lives on ONE type of plant Answer

Answer : Troubled Species What is the Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle (VELB)? Return to start

Nature Bowlers Make your wager!! And the question is…..

And the question is… Type of habitat each seed is found in: –Buckeye –Willow –Pine cone –Acorn –Cat tail –Thistle

What is: Buckeye-woodland Willow- riparian Pine cone- woodland, forest Acorn- oak savannah, oak woodland Cat tail- marsh, Thistle- grassland