The Frontenac Axis/Arch (GL-SL)

Question 1

What is the formation of rocks in the Frontenac axis?

Answer 1

Granite and gneissic rock

Question 2

Hillside plants in the Frontenac axis

Answer 2

Rock polypody, marginal shield fern, columbine

Question 3

Typical Animals

Answer 3

martens, fishers, eastern wolves, red squirrels

Question 4

Deciduous trees

Answer 4

sugar maple, yellow birch, american beech

Question 5

What is an example of a spring ephemeral?

Answer 5

Dutchman’s breeches

Question 6

Shrubs

Answer 6

bladdernut and prickly ash

Question 7

What moth lays its eggs on prickly ash?

Answer 7

Giant swallowtail

Question 8

What bird is found on cranberry lake?

Answer 8

Eastern amberwing

Question 9

What southern mammals are found in the frontenac axis?

Answer 9

eastern gray squirrel and eastern cottontail

Question 10

Why is the Frontenac Axis warm?

Answer 10

Low elevation, weak lake effect, and it is located on a southern part of the Canadian shield

Question 11

What birds are found in the frontenac axis?

Answer 11

Yellow throated vireo, blue gray gnatcatcher, cerulean warbler (threatened), Scarlet tanagers, pileated woodpeckers, barn owls

Question 12

Woodpeckers found in the Frontenac Axis

Answer 12

Southern woodpecker, red headed woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker

Question 13

What lizard is found in the Frontenac axis

Answer 13

Five lined skink, found on south facing slopes in the Canadian Shield

Question 14

What snakes are found in the frontenac axis?

Answer 14

eastern ribbon snake is common around beaver ponds, gray rat snake climbs trees (threatened population, habitat has been destroyed)

Question 15

What rare shrub is found only in the thousand islands area?

Answer 15

Deerberry

Question 16

What rare kind of pine tree is found in the Frontenac Axis

Answer 16

Pitch pine tree, has clusters of 3 needles and red bark in long strips

Question 17

Calciphilic plants found in the Frontenac Axis

Answer 17

Maidenhair spleenwort, Purple stemmed cliff brake, poison ivy, white trilliums

Question 18

What physiographic region does the frontenac axis lie on?

Answer 18

Canadian shield

Question 19

What coniferous trees are present?

Answer 19

white pines, eastern hemlock

Question 20

What are some things found in the frontenac axis but not other parts of the Canadian shield?

Answer 20

White oak (has rounded leaves, more southern)
Shagbark hickory (most are confined to the Carolinian zone, has very large nuts)
Bladdernut (shrub)
Prickly ash
Gray squirrel (can be gray or black, northern gray squirrels tend to be black in the frontenac axis)
Eastern cottontail (stays brown year round, smaller feet than snowshoe hare)
Eastern coyotes

Question 21

What does the Frontenac Axis contain more of than any other part of the GL-SLF. R. on the canadian shield?

Answer 21

Carolinian species

Question 22

Whats special about the Cerulean warbler and the frontenac axis?

Answer 22

very rare in Ontario but most abundant in Frontenac axis, classified as threatened, only found in Frontenac axis of SLGL FR

Question 23

What is the only lizard in eastern ON?

Answer 23

Five lined skink

Question 24

What is one reason the diversity is so rich in the Frontenac Axis?

Answer 24

The marble