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MJB Glossary Terms -Appendix B.

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is? microscopic floating and suspended aquatic plants

a)

zooplankton

b)

interspersion

c)

phytoplankton:

d)

turbidity

2.

What are plants that bear seeds in a pod; examples include lespedezas, clovers, soybeans, peas, and black locust ?

a)

soft mast

b)

browse

c)

succulents

d)

legume

3.

collective term for fruits, trees, shrubs and vines, both hard and soft (fleshy), such as acorns, hickory nuts, persimmon, mulberry, blackberry, and grape

a)

mast

b)

thatch

c)

browse

d)

forb

4.

What is the term for: a method commonly used to monitor relative abundance of songbirds

a)

point count:

b)

defecating

c)

carrying capacity

d)

irrigate

5.

What term means : usually used to describe the periodic movement to and from a breeding area; may also be used to explain other seasonal movements, such as altitudinal migration in elevation in response to snow cover and food availability?

a)

crepuscular

b)

migration

c)

seral stage

d)

rejuvenate

6.

What term means: plant and animal species originating historically or migrating naturally to a particular ecoregion?

a)

population

b)

secluded

c)

native

d)

regeneration

7.

What term means: a measure of water clarity (or cloudiness) as influenced by suspension of sediment or other materials, but most often soil particles (usually silt or clay)?

a)

irrigate

b)

turbidity

c)

stagnant

d)

transitional

8.

What term means: the maximum population that an area can sustain without causing some type of damage; usually related to food, cover, water, or space for a particular species (biological carrying capacity), but the term is sometimes applicable to cultural limitations for humans?

a)

carrying capacity

b)

stocking rate

c)

ephemeral

d)

ecosystem

9.

What term means: amount of land allotted to each animal for the entire grazable portion of the year?

a)

browse

b)

carrying capacity

c)

stocking rate

d)

succession

10.

What term means: seed occurring naturally in the top few inches of soil?

a)

seedbank

b)

mast

c)

nutrients

d)

regenerate

11.

What term means: microscopic animals that float/swim in water?

a)

phytoplankton

b)

raparian

c)

species

d)

zooplankton

12.

What is the term for: the area adjacent to and influenced by a water source such as a creek, stream, river, pond, lake,swamp or other wetland?

a)

savanna

b)

Riparian

c)

terrain

d)

landscape

13.

What term means : replacement of one vegetation type or seral stage by another?

a)

succession

b)

riparian

c)

terrain

d)

landscape

14.

What term means: a group of individuals of the same species living in a given area that interact with each other?

a)

population

b)

point counts

c)

migration

d)

invertebrates

15.

What terms means : to replace lost or damaged parts with new tissue

a)

seral stage

b)

transitional

c)

thatch

d)

regenerate

16.

What term means: a strip or block of cover that connects otherwise isolated areas for a particular wildlife species?

a)

corridor

b)

costal plain

c)

riparian

d)

creek bottom

17.

What term means: large, nearly level areas of land near ocean shores?

a)

corridor

b)

riparian zone

c)

coastal plain

d)

tidal zone

18.

What term means: n. leaves and ends of twigs of woody species; v. to eat browse?

a)

ground litter

b)

browse

c)

mast

d)

forbs

19.

What term means: a small fish, especially up to one year of age?

a)

ephemeral

b)

fingerling

c)

tadpole

d)

small fish