EXAM

Question 1

Algonquin park

Answer 1

• oldest provincial park in ontario
• rivers flowing in all directions
• white tailed deer were originally not present
• home to boreal forest plants and animals
• east side lower, less precipitation
• public wolf howls held in august
  species: Eastern wolves, giant white pines, eastern hemlock, barred owl, red squirrel, wood turtle, pickerel frog, red crossbill, pine warbler, arctic sculpin (cedar lake), boreal chickadee (southern range), macouns arctic butterflies (southern range), spruce grouce (southern), Canada jays (southern)

Question 2

Barron canyon

Answer 2

Species: eastern white cedar, xanthoria lichen, basswood, eastern phoebe, poison ivy

Question 3

Petawawa river (Eastern Algonquin)

Answer 3

-Calciphilic
-flows through geological fault line
-connects to Ottawa river
-deposited sand at lake travers and radiant lake
bedrock
Species: pickerel frogs, walleye, cardinal flowers, purple fringed orchids

Question 4

Hudson bay lowlands

Answer 4

ribbed fens

Question 5

superior boreal forest

Answer 5

-disjunct population of subarctic plants
-highest elevations in ontario
Species: alpine woodsia, sparrows egg ladys slippers

Question 6

Plant animal associations

Answer 6

sugar maple-woodland jumping mice
American beech-black bear
white pine-red crossbill
black spruce-spruce grouse
trembling aspen-beaver
eastern hemlock-yellow bellied sapsucker

Question 7

Hardwood forest shrub layer

Answer 7

species: Black throated blue warbler, wood thrush

Question 8

Hardwood forest canopy

Answer 8

species: red eyed vireo, scarlet tanager

Question 9

Clay belt (boreal forest)

Answer 9

-sand dunes caused by tyrell sea

Species:showy ladys slipper

Question 10

Great Lakes St Lawrence Forest Region

Answer 10

-many southern species reach their northern range limits here
-many northern species reach their southern range limits here
-greater diversity and warmer than boreal forest
situated on
species: white/red pine (indicators)
Boreal forest species: white spruce, balsam fir, red squirrel, spruce grouse
Carolinian forest species:sugar maple, yellow birch, gray squirrel, scarlet tanager

Question 11

Carolinian forest region

Answer 11

-Has GLSL species

Question 12

eastern hemlock

Answer 12

grow on cool, moist north facing slopes

Question 13

eastern hemlock (Algonquin highland)

Answer 13

grow on cool, moist north facing slopes

Question 14

White pine needles

Answer 14

long, groups of five

Question 15

great lakes endemic

Answer 15

pitchers thistle

Question 16

Algonquin wolves

Answer 16

• average pack size seven
• eastern wolf
• subject of 3 major studies by pimlott, theberge and patterson

Question 17

Algonquin wolves

Answer 17

• average pack size seven
• eastern wolf
• subject of 3 major studies by pimlott, theberge and Patterson
• main prey are deer, moose and beaver

Question 18

Frontenac arch (GLSL)

Answer 18

-warmest part of GLSL
-world biosphere reserve
-thousand islands link it to adirondak
species: deerberry, pitch pine (lake of the woods/rainy river), shagbark hickory, cerulean warbler (summer), gray rat snake, five lined skink, rocky polyody, marginal shield fern, purple stemmed cliffbrake, maiden hair spleenwort
Carolinian Species:red bellied woodpeckers, cottontails, gray squirrels, eastern red cedar, bladdernut, white oak

Question 19

Lake superior provincial park

Answer 19

Species: butterwort

Question 20

red pine needles

Answer 20

long, clusters of two

Question 21

cattail marshes

Answer 21

-periodic episodes of flooding
Species:duckweed, marsh fern, muskrats, American bitterns, marsh wrens, virginia rails, pied bill grebes, skimmer dragonflies

Question 22

grass that grows on sand dunes

Answer 22

beach pea

Question 23

fen indicator species

Answer 23

bog bean

Question 24

hardwood forest floor

Answer 24

species: oven birds, riffed grouse

Question 25

yellow birch and eastern hemlock both

Answer 25

benefit from ground fires and rotting logs

Question 26

eastern hemlocks are habitat for

Answer 26

golden crowned kinglets, black throated green warbler, pine siskin, yellow bellied sap suckers

Question 27

what trees grow best on outwash sand plains

Answer 27

red and white pines

Question 28

what animals eat pine seeds

Answer 28

red squirrels and red crossbills

Question 29

why are giant swallowtails found on Frontenac arch? what do they eat?

Answer 29

prickly ash

Question 30

what type of snakes are gray rat snakes

Answer 30

tree climbing constrictors

Question 31

what is cosewic

Answer 31

committee that identifies species at risk in canada