NY Environthon!
Nature Rules!
Envirothon Home website
Oral Problem:
Forestry:
Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!
Past Questions!
- ID trees
- black birch, beech, red maple, scotch pine, walnut
- Plant taxonomy
- ID cones of all conifers
- determine the log volume given data
- know which trees have value based on
- seed crop regeneration, root regeneration, insect repellant, shade plant
- give a list of trees in order of heights
- The area of one acre is defined as 66 by 660 feet (a chain by a furlong) then the volume of an acre-foot is exactly 43560 cubic feet.
- hardwood characterisitics
- ID nuts from trees
- forest products
- ginsing, maple syrup, charcoa
- first step for regeneration- seedlings
- list of pioneer species
- plants to mitigate stream erosion- willow
- number of chains in foot
- number of square feet in a cord- 4 x 4 x 8 feet
- how many plants can fit on a 6 foot by 6 foot plot (at X spacing?)
- how many feet in an acre.
- measure the DBH
- species indigenious to NY state
- tree names by genus
- know what imbibition means
- sieve plate- xylem or phloem
Wildlife
Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!
- Powerpoint- Name that animal
- Powerpoint- Aerial photos
- Powerpoint- Endangered species
- Homework- study animal skulls
Past Questions
- pelts
- grey and red fox vs. coyote
- beaver were almost extirpated from NY
- Given a nesting structure- which type of bird would live there
- wood duck, blue bird, owl
- oil kills bird eggs
- unique behaviors
- common foods
- beaver or turkey eat acrons
- fox climbs trees!
- know the families/genus of all mammals
- endangered species list of NY
- books/authors/famous biologists
- lodge material animals
- difference between diving ducks and dabbling ducks/puddle ducks
- diseases and causes
- ex. white, firm bone marrow- health or mass wasting
- location feeding moose
- Bergmann's rule
- invasive species list- starling, mute swans
- why does a woodpecker peck?
- how do you best get rid of canadian geese on your property
- fireworks, dogs, cut grass
- know how to id a bird by its feather
- know the types of trees birds like to nest in
Aquatics
Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!
- Aging fish from a scale
- Water quality tests
- Parts of a fish
- ID aquatic plants
- ID fish
- Name water layers/zones
- Order branches in streams 1-4
- ID salamander
- ID egg
Herbaceous perennial examples:
o cattails (Typha)
o wetland irises (Iris)
o buttercups (e.g., species of Ranunculus and Caltha palustris)
o hundreds of grass species (Poaceae), including the giant reed, Phragmites australis
o skunk-cabbage, Symplocarpus foetidus, as well as aquatic aroids from the tropics
o arrowleaf (Sagittaria spp.) and water-plantains (Alisma)
o some species of knotweed (Persicaria or Polygonum)
o lizard's tail (Saururus cernuum)
o bur-reed (Sparganium)
o Thalia geniculata (Family Marantaceae) and pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata, Family Pontederiaceae)
* umbellifers, e.g., cutleaf water-parsnip (Berula erecta) and species of Hydrocotyle
- Aquatic Species Monitering for water quality
- Very Tolerant- midge larva, snails, leech, aquatic worms
- Mildly Tolerant- beetle larvae, cranefly larvae, clams, crayfish, dragonfly nymph, damselfly nymph, black fly larvae
- Very sensitive to pollution- stonefly nymph, mayfly nymph, dobsonfly, water penny and caddisfly larva
Past Questions
- relationship between water temp and DO
- ID aquatic plants
- invasive aquatic plants- milleform, water chestnut
- Name that fish
- sunfish, perch, large mouth bass, small mouth bass, sculpin, shiner
- bullhead no scales?
- what is their temperature preference (which likes above 70 degrees which likes below)
- Name that layer of water
- entrophic, hyperentrophic mesotrophic, oligotrophic (in terms of water clarity)
- hypotropic, etc. in terms of temperature difference
- littoral zone (food chain starts with detritus). profundal
- Order branches in streams 1-4
- Order classes of streams
- A= drinking, B= bathing, C?=swimming
- CFU
- colony forming unit. measures bacteria
- septic fields leak pharmasudicals.
- Habitat requirements of common fish
- indicators of good and bad water quality
- ripian zone
- dystrophic lake
is:
- marl, bog or oligotrophic
- Name that salamander
- Name that egg
- frog, salamander, toad, fis
- food chain for fish
- seche disc purpose
- % groundwater of total water- .8%
- 150 gallons water used per person/day
- what is amount per US- billions
- thermal stratification
- larvae form of mussels
- methods for catching fish
- wetlands protection, Federal-12.4 acre
- dye testing for septic fields
- anadromonous fish- eel
- instruments used for measurement water quality
- larvae id paired with adult form
- genus fish id
- thermocline
- who governs fish management- DEC- fish and wildlife
- id aquatic plants
- nest type of fish
- lotic ecosystems
Soils
Don't forget to review your packet for outline and learning objectives!!!
Powerpoint- in Ms Law's class folder
- dirt vs soil
- Identify the recharge area around communities.
- Zoning for land use.
- Moniter existing land use that pose a threat to ground water
- local homeowners must knows on to ground water protection
- tilth
- laterite
- channers
- regolith
- gleyed soil
- marl
- sapric
- first sign of erosion is river development?
- parent material of soil- lacustrine, glacial till, glacial outwash
- mottling
- perc test
- soil loss equation (RUSLE),
- hydric soils
- loam adds buffering to soil
- difference between sandy loam and loamy sand
- what instruments are used for soil measurement
- know how to determine soil texture by feel
- know which soil type is good for
- wetland habitat
- basements
- increasing the rate of erosion
- Cation Exchange increases with clay in soil
- Mycelium
- transformations of soil
- salt in soil
- fragipan
- determine the percent slope using a clinometer
- what does gray soil signify? Anaerobic Conditions of standing water
- clay skins, manganese, mica or iron?
- be able to identify soil structure
- blocky, granular or platy
