Scavenger Hunt

How many of these can you find?

The Rules:

  • you may not use a specimen to cover more than 1 item!

  • photographs are accepted when you can't collect the sample. (you must take them yourself - no Internet)

  • no sample will be accepted if it disrupts the environment 

  • you need not collect everything to receive extra credit. 

  • The amount of credit received will be determined by the number of items discovered and their accuracy.

  • Have fun.

  • Beware of poison ivy.

  • Ask for permission to "hunt" on private property.

  • Get your parents to help!

1. A picture of poison ivy and a description of why it causes so much misery to many.

2. A leaf with parallel veins.  (Dry or laminate it.)

3. 3 leaves with net-like venation.

4. Identify each of the above leaves.  

5. Evidence of animal life.  (Not the actual animal or photograph)  Hint: footprints, nests, etc.

6. Evidence of decomposition and recycling.

7. How many of these fruits or flowers can you find?   (Hint: The flower always appears first - so they may both be collected in different seasons.)  

  • oak

  • maple

  • tulip tree

  • ash

  • beech

  • birch

  • sweet gum

  • sycamore

  • ginkgo - make sure the fruit is in a "baggie."  Guess why.

  • catalpa

  • chestnut

8. A community undergoing ecological succession.

9. A lichen

10. Moss or liverworts.

11. A symbiotic relationship - identify it.

12. Non-photosynthetic organism without roots.

13. Non-living part of a plant.

14. A perennial plant.

15. An annual plant.

16. Two gymnosperms showing their reproductive structures.

17. Identify the above.

18. Seeds of a conifer.

19. A plant with compound leaves. Identify it.

20. A plant that grows from a bulb (not the one that lights up.) Identify it.

21. A grass flower.

22. An herbaceous plant with seeds.

23. A fern leaf (called a frond) with sori.

24. A tree with leaves arranged alternately on the stem.

25. A tree with leaves in an opposite arrangement on the stem.

26. Take a walk in the Nature Study Woods (entrance is on Webster Ave., north of Eastchester Rd.).  Here you will see large trees and an intact canopy, a small marsh and swamp, a portion of the Hutchinson River and a small pond behind a stone dam.  This areas is prized for its variety of birds.  Take a picture of yourself there and identify the habitat you are surrounded by.  Even better - see if you can get a picture of a bird there and identify it!

27. Identify the music on this site.

Hints:  If you get stuck, try clicking here.

 

Created by Joyce Kent                       
Albert Leonard MS   May, 2001    

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