Date ______Number ______

How much time do you currently spend teaching people about wetlands?

a)None

b)Less than one day per year

c)Several days to one week per year

d)Several weeks per year

e)One month or more per year

Occupation (circle one): a) Educator b) OtherIf other, please specify: ______

What grade(s) do you teach? ______

Do you regularly visit and explore wetlands yourself? Yes/No

Do you lead field trips to explore wetlands? Yes/No

If so, how many trips have you led to wetlands? ______

1)Define “wetland”

2)Name three types of wetlands

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3)Write three words that describe wetlands

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4)What do you call the special “breathing root” structure found on some mangroves?

5)Is hypersaline water a) more salty or b) less salty than seawater?

6)Correctly match the following:

White Mangrove ____ / a) Surrounded by thin breathing roots; leaves are opposite, long and thin, salt crystals on back; white flowers; fruit is smooth and flattened; grows in shallow, salty water
Red Mangrove ____ / b) Grows on rocks and beaches but not in the water, no prop roots, no breathing roots, thin, alternate leaves, very tiny flowers in clusters in rounded heads; red-grown fruit in clusters in rounded heads
Black Mangrove ____ / c) Grows along the shoreline, thick prop roots; leaves are opposite, large and leathery, bright green; yellow-cream flowers with 4 pointed petals, torpedo-like plantlets on the tree
Buttonwood Mangrove ____ / d) Thick and knobby breathing roots; leaves are opposite, rounded, yellow-green, may have pinkish stems; small white flowers in a spike; ribbed green fruit, salt glands at base of leaf

7)Name some wetland plants and animals

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8)Give an example of a simple wetland food chain

9)Name two adaptations to life in wetlands

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b)

10)List two wetland functions or values

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11)List three activities that destroy or degrade wetlands

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12)Describe one sustainable use of wetland resources

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13)Name two agencies that conserve wetlands

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14)Name two things that you are willing to do to conserve or protect wetlands

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15)List two things to keep in mind when planning a field trip to a wetland

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16)Based on your present knowledge, which of the following field trip activities would you be comfortable doing:

Making and using a field notebook? Yes/No

Making basic field equipment (dip net, plant press, etc.)? Yes/No

Sampling aquatic invertebrates (“critter dipping”)? Yes/No

Conducting a plant study (plant identification, transect and/or quadrat)? Yes/No

Making a plant collection?Yes/No

Bird identification and observing bird behaviour? Yes/No

17)List two things that you should avoid doing on a wetland field trip

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18)List two things that you should definitely do during a wetland field trip

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19)Rate your current comfort level in leading wetland field trips:

a) very comfortable, b) fairly comfortable, c) a bit uncomfortable, d) not comfortable at all

20)Rate your current comfort level in communicating wetland concepts to others:

a) very comfortable, b) fairly comfortable, c) a bit uncomfortable, d) not comfortable at all