Lecture 18

Question 1

lake of the woods: tree

Answer 1

Hills oak is found here

Question 2

Prairie birds found here

Answer 2

Marbled godwits, black billed magpies, western meadowlarks, sandhill cranes, sharp tailed grouse

Question 3

Prairie plants

Answer 3

prairie crocus and indian paintbrush

Question 4

Mammals

Answer 4

white tailed jack rabbit, groundhogs, ground squirrels, badgers

Question 5

Fish eating birds found here

Answer 5

cormorants, Franklin’s gulls, american white pelicans, yellow headed blackbirds

Question 6

Rock found in the glsl lowland/Ottawa sl lowland

Answer 6

Sedimentary rock, younger than Canadian shield rock. Flat due to sedimentary rock and glacial deposits

Question 7

Periodic flooding and drawdowns

Answer 7

Important elements of marsh ecology.

Question 8

Aerobic bacteria

Answer 8

use oxygen to break things down

Question 9

anaerobic bacteria

Answer 9

do not need oxygen to break things down

Question 10

Lentic system

Answer 10

slow moving water, dragonflies like to lay their eggs here

Question 11

Two types of cattails in ON

Answer 11

broad leaf, native species.

narrow leaf, non native species. Hybrid species is spreading throughout ON

Question 12

How does marsh thing form

Answer 12

Roots get together and interlock, similar to sphagnum moss. They form their own nat, which is grounded, and plants grow on top, marsh ferns are particularly dominant here.

Question 13

Common flower in cattail marshes

Answer 13

Wild iris

Question 14

What are cattails food for?

Answer 14

Cattail moth caterpillars

Question 15

Female muskrats

Answer 15

Sometimes kill neighbouring nests babies. Their tails help with swimming, they are flat from side to side to help with swimming, webbed feet. Use cattail marshes for their lodges, no sticks. Eat more than just plant materials, also eat clams

Question 16

Birds that loves cattail marshes

Answer 16

Yellow throated warbler, marsh wren, swamp sparrow

Question 17

Difference between marshes and swamps

Answer 17

swamps have water tolerant trees

Question 18

Indicator for swamps

Answer 18

Virginia rails, they are very thin and have webbed feet to walk between cattails

Question 19

Other swamp birds

Answer 19

american coot, pie billed grebe. Both have lobed feet for swimming, feet are drawn forward and toes close when still, toes open to help with swimming.

Question 20

Submergent plant

Answer 20

greater bladderwort

Question 21

Smallest flowering plant in the world

Answer 21

duckweed, floating vegetation

Question 22

Waterlilies

Answer 22

Flowers and leaves float. Stems go down to the bottom, not an emergent or submergent, kind of both.

Question 23

Common marsh damselflies

Answer 23

marsh bluet

Question 24

Dragonflies

Answer 24

dominant here because it is a lentic system, dot tailed whiteface is a common kind, 12 spot skimmer, common green darner.

Question 25

Amphibians

Answer 25

bullfrogs are here year round. Males have eyes smaller than their tempanum. They are not totally freeze tolerant, so they hide in the mud. Northern water snakes and snapping turtles are also found here.