Across
- 4. Plants start growing, commonly in spring
- 6. Vital to all life forms & we;ve had a lot less after losing beaver dam
- 8. Species that need vernal pool throughout their life cycle(fairy shrimp & tiger salamander)
- 12. legume plants fix this cycle
- 14. Uses mud to show what animals leave behind
- 15. Has heat sensing pits; doesn't live in NC bc it's too low of altitude
- 17. Red-winged blackbirds use to watch over nests
- 18. Uses expensive equipment & pheasant
- 20. If given this job bring backpack & trail plan out
- 24. Slaps pollen onto bee's butts when they land on flower
- 27. Has live birth rather than common egg laying
- 28. Eggs can live for thousands of years, even in space
- 30. Most active at dawn & dusk
- 31. Organism/Species that serves as a measure of the environmental condition in a given area
Down
- 1. Loudest animal relative to body size
- 2. Yellow plant w/ white edges- found as ring in vernal pool
- 3. White w/ yellow bill, seen often in NC
- 5. Name for things that living organisms can't survive without
- 7. Semi-wet grassland habitat
- 9. Habitat in most of Nature Center, tall plants w/ few trees
- 10. Pioneer species (found on every continent) & breaks down rock
- 11. Eat bugs from tree; has seatbelt like tongue
- 13. one animal gains from another animal while that one suffers
- 16. Animals do this ritual to create offspring
- 19. Go out here during long class period
- 21. Smooth scales & semi prehensile tail
- 22. Small mammals make these after traveling along a place a lot
- 23. Has a negative impact on native species
- 25. If stationed here bring out reptiles
- 26. Made millions of years ago bc of volcanoes
- 27. Raptors use to store unwanted food; sharp right here
- 29. Vernal pool, marsh, grassland, forest, desert, coral reef