pro tem pictorial quiz | The Boneyard

pro tem pictorial quiz

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
I spent a couple of weeks on the coast of Maine recently, including a week camping in Acadia National Park. I took a lot of pictures of the local flora and geography. I thought I'd post them in the form of a quiz since there hasn't been one in awhile. I think many of these are gimmes, but there might be a few stumpers.

Evidently I can only post one pic per image, but the questions are all listed in a separate message at the end.

1) These trees have swollen sore-like patches caused by scale insects:
44810
 
Last edited:

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
3) This small plant, with five leaflets, will have a cluster of very dark berries. (You can see the blooms below the leaves.) The berries have been used to make soda. What are the plant and the soda called?

44812
 

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
7) When a pine tree dies some time before it falls, flammable saps drain to lower parts of the trunk, leading to wood that burns like this. Give one or two names for this type of wood, commonly used as a fire starter.

44816
 

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
8) The pink granite that makes up much of Mount Desert Island is also common in what mountain range? This recognition lent credence to the theory of plate tectonics.

44817
 

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
10) Old man’s beard (which I’d always thought was Spanish moss, but that doesn’t grow as far north as Mt Desert) is an epiphytic type of what life form that’s a combination of fungus and algae?

44819
 

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
11) This caterpillar will turn into a monarch butterfly, which is well-known among its predators to be toxic. But it’s not congenitally toxic. What causes the toxicity?

44820
 

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
14) Those couple of light-colored boulders were deposited by glaciers during an ice age. What’s the term for rocks that’s happened to?

44824
 

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
Here are the questions all in one message to make them easier to respond to:

1) These trees have swollen sore-like patches caused by scale insects

2) Loons must run on the water in order to get enough lift to fly. Why?

3) This small plant, with five leaflets, will have a cluster of very dark berries. (You can see the blooms below the leaves.) The berries have been used to make soda. What are the plant and the soda called?

4) This little plant is called bunchberry. It is closely related to what common decorative tree?

5) Name a key difference between damsel flies and dragon flies. Which one is this?

6) True or false: Bald eagles generally mate for life.

7) When a pine tree dies some time before it falls, flammable saps drain to lower parts of the trunk, leading to wood that burns like this. Give one or two names for this type of wood, commonly used as a fire starter. (I know of at least three names for it.)

8) The pink granite that makes up much of Mount Desert Island is also common in what mountain range? This recognition lent credence to the theory of plate tectonics.

9) This orchid is common to coastal regions on both sides of the Atlantic.

10) Old man’s beard (which I’d always thought was Spanish moss, but that doesn’t grow as far north as Mt Desert) is an epiphytic type of what life form that’s a combination of fungus and algae?

11) This caterpillar will turn into a monarch butterfly, which is well-known among its predators to be toxic. But it’s not congenitally toxic. What causes the toxicity?

12) These are the blooms of what carnivorous plant that lures its prey down into a pool of digestive juices?

13) Gray squirrels tend to live in deciduous forests, while these squirrels tend to live in coniferous forests.

14) Those couple of light-colored boulders were deposited by glaciers. What’s the term for rocks that’s happened to?

15) These sorts of fungi that grow out usually parallel to the ground are named for something you might set a book on.
 

nwhoopfan

hopeless West Coast homer
Joined
Feb 16, 2017
Messages
28,778
Reaction Score
52,996
Wow, I failed this quiz.

#4 dogwood
#14 glacial erratic
 

Rocket009

Santa Cruz. CA
Joined
Jun 4, 2014
Messages
863
Reaction Score
3,227
1) Birch
4) Dogwood
5) Damsel fly - they fold their wings. A dragon fly's wings are always at 90 deg to it's body.
6) True
10) Lichen
11) From feeding on milkweed
12) Pitcher plants
13) Red Squirrels
14) Erratics
15) Shelf Mushrooms
 
Joined
Aug 2, 2015
Messages
3,937
Reaction Score
8,802
Just to show moral support for the quizzes (this will be embarrassing)

1. Birch?
2. My guess is that they run awkwardly on land for some reason...do they have big flipper feet?
10. Lichen?
12. Looks kind of like a pitcher plant.
 
Joined
Mar 16, 2018
Messages
1,363
Reaction Score
11,806
7. Fatwood
9. Lady Slipper - love to come across these on walks in CT woods, usually late May - early June
 

Bigboote

That's big-boo-TAY
Joined
Dec 16, 2016
Messages
6,631
Reaction Score
33,082
2. My guess is that they run awkwardly on land for some reason...do they have big flipper feet?

I should clarify: They need to run in order to take off. I've only seen them take off from the water.
 

Online statistics

Members online
563
Guests online
3,474
Total visitors
4,037

Forum statistics

Threads
155,763
Messages
4,030,804
Members
9,863
Latest member
leepaul


Top Bottom