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Nature Bowl Edition
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Native
Species
Glossary
terms
Exotics
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200
Salmon
Energy
Troubled
Species
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Native Species - 100
• Black and White Bird Endemic to the
Central Valley
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Native Species - 100
• What is a yellow-billed magpie
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Native Species - 200
• Small rodent who’s special adaptations
include the ability to drink salt water
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Native Species - 200
• What is the Salt Marsh harvest Mouse
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Native Species - 300
• Two species of anadromous fish found in
the Sacramento and San Juaquin Rivers
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Answer : Native Species - 300
• What are chinook salmon, steelhead, striped
bass, white sturgeon, green surgeon, and
American shad
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Native Species - 400
• Evergreen acorn bearing tree native to
woodlands of California
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Answer: Native Species - 400
• What is a Live oak
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Native Species - 500
• Two animals native to California Vernal
Pools
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Answer : Native Species - 500
• What are fairy shrimp, tadpole shrimp,
California Tiger salamander,
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Glossary Terms -100
• Type of Symbiosis in which both species
benifit
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Answer : Glossary Terms - 100
• What is mutualism
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Glossary Terms - 200
• Evergreen trees which bear cones
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Answer : Glossary Terms - 200
• What is a conifer?
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Glossary Terms - 300
• Animals that are most active during dusk
and dawn
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Answer : Glossary Terms- 300
• What is crepuscular?
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Glossary Terms - 400
• Events that can cause the decline of a
population of a species within a habitat
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Answer : Glossary Terms - 400
• What is a limiting factor
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Glossary Terms - 500
• The area of land that receives and
distributes rainwater into a stream, lake or
river system
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Answer – Glossary Terms 500
• What is a watershed?
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Exotics - 100
• Invasive amphibian exotic to California
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Answer : Exotics -100
• What is the bullfrog?
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Exotics - 200
• Aquatic mammal found in California
streams and rivers once hunted for its fur
and meat
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Answer : Exotics - 200
• What is the muskrat
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Exotics - 300
• Omniverous marsupial found in the
California Central Valley
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Answer : Exotics - 300
• What is an opossum?
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Exotics - 400
• Beautiful game bird descended from old
world stock
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Answer : Exotics - 400
• What is the Ring-necked pheasant?
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Exotics - 500
• Three reasons exotic plants are bad for the
environment
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Answer : Exotics - 500
– What Are:
• Displace native species
• Change the way a normal ecosystem
operates
• Can be hazardous to native fauna
• Reduces biodiversity
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Salmon - 100
• 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.
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Answer : Salmon - 100
• What is an alevin
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Salmon - 200
• Three conditions which much be exactly
right for an egg to survive
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Answer : Salmon - 200
What are temperature, oxygen level, and
speed of water
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Salmon - 300
• Process salmon undergo when they leave
the fresh water and head to the sea.
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Answer : Salmon - 300
• What is smoltification
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Salmon - 400
• Name for all fish which change physically
in order to survive first in fresh water and
then in salt
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Answer : Salmon - 400
• What is anadromous
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Salmon - 500
• Three of the many reason salmon have a
small chance of survival
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Answer : Salmon - 500
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What are:
Eggs crushed
Siltification and pollution
Poaching
Dams
Natural predators
Habitat distruction
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Energy - 100
• Two alternative energy sources found in the
California Central Valley
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Answer : Energy - 100
What are biomass, wind, solar and geothermal
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Energy - 200
• Element used in production of nuclear
energy
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Answer : Energy -200
• What is uranium?
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Energy - 300
• Energy Source used to produce 95% of the
world’s energy.
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Answer : Energy- 300
• What are Fossil Fuels
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Energy - 400
• One advantage and one disadvantage to
using wind power
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Answer : Energy - 400
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
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Energy - 500
Three disadvantages to using fossil fuels
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Answer : Energy - 500
• What are pollution, greenhouse effect, oil
spills, dangers of mining, destruction of the
landscape from mining, nonrenewable
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Troubled Species - 100
• Endangered, endemic reptile of the central
valley
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Answer : Troubled Species - 100
• What is the giant garter snake?
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Troubled Species - 200
• Endangered amphibian that lives in vernal
pools
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Answer : Troubled Species - 200
• What is the California Tiger Salamander
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Troubled Species - 300
• Most common reason that animals become
endangerd
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Answer : Troubled Species - 300
• What is habitat destruction?
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Troubled Species - 400
One of three animals extirpated from Central
Valley Grasslands
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Answer : Troubled Species - 400
• What are the grizzly bear, pronghorn
antelope, and grey wolf
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Troubled Species - 500
• Endangered insect that is endemic to the
central valley and only lives on ONE type
of plant
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Answer : Troubled Species - 500
• What is the Valley Elderberry Longhorn
Beetle (VELB)?
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Nature Bowlers
Make your wager!!
And the
question is…..
And the question is…
• Type of habitat each seed is found in:
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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