Educators may use these words and phrases during Environmental
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VOCABULARY AND SPECIES LISTS Educators may use these words and phrases during Environmental Science Programs. Familiarizing your students with some or all of these terms prior to your visit may improve their ability to understand concepts presented. You may want to discuss how these terms apply to your local environment or incorporate them into a field journal: ask students to define the terms and look for examples while visiting our campus. ´ VOCABULARY LIST ¹ ECOLOGICAL TERMS Abiotic Allelopathy Adaptation Anadromous Binocular Vision Biodiversity Biotic Carnivore Commensalism Community Competition Consumer Crepuscular Decomposer Diurnal Diversity Ecological Niche Ecology Endemic Environment Epiphyte Exotic Food Chain Food Web Habitat Herbivore Hermaphrodite Hibernation Insulation Interdependence Invertebrates Life Zone Migration Monocular Mutualism Mycorrhizae Native Niche Nocturnal Omnivore Organism Parasite Photosynthesis Predator/Prey Primary Producer Rainshadow Redd Riparian Sagittal Crest Saprophyte Scavenger Secondary Consumer Stewardship Succession Symbiosis Watershed EARTH SCIENCE VOCABULARY Accretion Basalt Climate Convection Drainage Earthquake Erosion Exotic Terrane Fault Geology Geologic Time Glacier Granite Igneous Rock Joint Landform Metamorphic Rock Mudstone Pillow Lava Plate Tectonics Rain shadow Rock Cycle Sandstone Scientific Method ´ SPECIES LIST ¹ Sediment Sedimentary Rock Spreading Center Strike-slip Subduction Talus Uplift Watershed The checklists on the following page provide a sampling of some plants and animals you might see during your visit to Olympic National Park. You might use these checklists to: • Compare/contrast the fauna and flora of your community with those of the Olympic Peninsula. • Check off things that students observe/encounter while visiting Olympic National Park. • Create a journal assignment in which students describe and/or sketch items from the list. • Assign students to study several species and share interesting information with classmates before or after your Environmental Science Program. • Have students sort species into the habitats where they might be found. www.naturebridge.org/olympic-park - 111 Barnes Point Rd. –Port Angeles, WA 98363 – 360.928.3720 - October 15, 2011 1 COMMON TREES Big Leaf Maple Bitter Cherry Black Cottonwood Douglas Fir Grand Fir Madrone Pacific Yew Red Alder Sitka Spruce Vine Maple Western Hemlock Western Red Cedar Indian Plum Mountain Ash Ocean Spray Red Flowering Currant Rhododendron Salmonberry Indian Pipe Lady Fern Lichen Maidenhair Fern Oak Fern Pipsissewa Queen's Cup Rattlesnake Plantain Salal Skunk Cabbage Slender Stem Waterleaf Solomon's Seal Spring Beauty Star Flower Stonecrop Sweet Coltsfoot Sword Fern Trail Plant Trillium Twin Flower Vanilla Leaf Wall Flower Western Buttercup Wild Ginger Wintergreen Wood Nymph Fisher Gray Wolf Marmot Marten Mountain Beaver Mountain Lion Northern Flying Squirrel Pocket Gopher Porcupine Raccoon Red Fox Red Tree Vole Roosevelt Elk Townsend Chipmunk Snowshoe Hare Spotted Skunk Striped Skunk Hutton’s Vireo Loon Mallard Marbled Murrelet Nighthawk Northwestern Crow Orange-crowned Warbler Osprey Pileated Woodpecker Raven Red-tailed Hawk Ruby-crowned Kinglet Rufus Hummingbird Stellar's Jay Swainson's Thrush Townsend's Warbler Turkey Vulture Varied Thrush Vaux's Swift Violet Green Swallow Warbling Vireo Water Ouzel Western Flycatcher Winter Wren Pacific Giant Salamander Red-legged Frog Rough Skinned Newt Rubber Boa Pacific Tree Frog Tailed Frog Western Toad Western Fence Lizard COMMON SHRUBS Black Raspberry Elderberry Huckleberry OTHER PLANTS Bleeding Heart Bunchberry Calypso Orchid Candy Flower Cow Parsnip Deer Fern False Lily-of-the-Valley Foam Flower Goat’s beard MAMMALS Bat Beaver Black Bear Black-tailed Deer Bobcat Douglas’ Squirrel BIRDS American Robin Bald Eagle Barn Swallow Chestnut-backed Chickadee Dark eyed Junco Goldfinch Great Horned Owl REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS Gopher Snake Long-Toed Salamander NW Garter Snake Olympic Salamander www.naturebridge.org/olympic-park - 111 Barnes Point Rd. –Port Angeles, WA 98363 – 360.928.3720 - October 15, 2011 2 INTERTIDAL LIFE Acorn Barnacle Bladderwrack Fucus Giant Green Anemone Goose Barnacle Hermit Crab Isopod Kelp Limpet Chiton Mussel Clingfish Nudibranch Periwinkle Purple Sponge Purple Urchin Red Algae Rock Prickleback Sculpin Sunflower Star www.naturebridge.org/olympic-park - 111 Barnes Point Rd. –Port Angeles, WA 98363 – 360.928.3720 - October 15, 2011 3
