Field Biology
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Unit one: Grasslands
What is a Grasslands?
Flora
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Wild flowers
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Carolina anemone
Purple coneflower
Wild gourd
Daylily
indian blanket flower
Spotted Touch me-not
Scarlet gaura
Downy gentian
Grasses
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the green foxtail
Bottlebrush grass
Broad-leaf wood-oats
Eastern gama grass
Blue grama
Noxious Weeds
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the Musk thristle
Russian knapweed
Fauna
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Birds
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the Prarie chicken
ferruginous hawk
The Red- tailed Hawk
Insects
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Orthoptera
Lepdioptera
Hymenoptera
Diptera
Coleoptera
Hemiptera
Homoptera
Odanata
Mammels
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Bison
the prong horn
Black-footed Ferret
Reptiles
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the westren rattle snake
western slender glass lizard
Ornate Box Turtle
Unit two: Aquatics
Freshwater Aquatic Ecosystem
Aquatic Flora
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Lily pads
Reeds
Cattails
Aquatic fauna
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Reptiles
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Dwarf African Frog
The bull shark
freshwater alligator
Axolotl
Spotted bass
Bluegill
red breasted sunfish
sturgeon
Tench
reed fish
invasive spices
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Zebra Mussels
Alligator Gar
Algae
Moss
Unite three: Forests
Contact
Human Impact
sturgeon
http://www.arkive.org/shovelnose-sturgeon/scaphirhynchus-platorynchus/
Genus-
Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus
spices- sturgeon
size- 18 feet
diet-
crustaceans and small fish.
location- Mississippi rivers and west coast rivers