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| How does the Grassland and Tree Island region differ from Marshes? |
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Definition
| The depth of the water over the ground surface is usually shallower and does not stand for as long a period of time during the year |
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| Where is the most extensive area of Grasslands located? |
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Definition
| Within the Lake Istokpoga - Indian Prarie Basin |
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| What are the predominant plants of the Grassland and Tree Island region? |
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Definition
| Cabbage Palms and switch grass |
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Term
| Where is the largest area of Scrub Forest occur? |
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Definition
| Ocala National Park also known as the Big Scrub |
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Term
| What rare scrub tree occurs in the Big Scrub? |
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Definition
| Scrub PIne (Pinus Clausa) |
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Term
| What occurs in slight depressions in Scrub areas? |
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Definition
| Herbaceous plants surrounded by slash pines |
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Term
| What occurs on better soils in scrub areas? |
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Definition
| Longleaf, Slash, Loblolly and Scrub PInes |
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Term
| What occurs in wetter areas of scrub forest? |
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Definition
| Cypress & hardwood mixed with cabbage palms |
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Term
| Where is the 2nd scrub area located? |
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Definition
| At the southern tip of the Highland ridge near Lake Stearns |
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Term
| What oaks occur in scrub areas? |
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Definition
| Myrtle Oak, Chapman Oak and scrub live oak |
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Term
| What tree is characteristic of the highland ridge scrub area, but are non-existent in other areas? |
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Definition
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| What are common undergrowth plants in scrub areas? |
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Definition
| rosemary, lichens and prickly pear cactus |
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Term
| Where do other small scrub areas occur? |
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Definition
| Dunes of the Atlantic Coast and the SW coast from FM to Marco. |
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Term
| This vegetation area is covered with surface water during a part of the year and are dominated by grasses and aquatic plants in pools and deeper bodies of water. |
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Definition
| Grassland and tree island region |
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Term
| Why are scrub areas considered high aquifer recharge areas? |
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Definition
| Infertile, sandy, excessively drained soils |
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Term
| How much of Florida is covered with Pine Flatwoods? |
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Definition
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| What is the general characteristic of the topography in Pine Flatwoods? |
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Definition
| Elevations are less than 100' |
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Term
| What type of trees occur in PF? |
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Definition
| Longleaf, Slash and Pond Pines dominate |
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Term
| What plants make up the undergrowth of the Pine Flatwood forests? |
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Definition
Saw palmetto, wiregrass, gallberry, myrtle and rosemary
also fetterbush running oak |
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Term
| This vegetation type occurs in bottomlands adjacent to streams and are covered with water during a large portion of the year. |
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Definition
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Term
| Where are the most extensive areas of Swamp Forest found? |
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Definition
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Term
| The largest section of Swamp Forest is found along what River? |
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Definition
| The Apalatchicola River to the GA border |
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Term
| Where are smaller areas of Swamp Forest located? |
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Definition
| Along the Aucilla and Santa Fe Rivers, Caloosahatchee, Turner, New & St. Lucie Rivers |
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Term
| Which waterways in South Florida have Swamp Forests? |
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Definition
| Peace River, Taylor River and Fisheating Creek |
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Term
| What plants are characteristic of South Florida Swamp Forests? |
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Definition
| Red Maple, water oak, laurel oak, Florida ash, bald cypress, Wax myrtle, sweet bay, red bay, cabbage palm and strangler fig |
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Term
| What plants are characteristic of North Florida Swamp Forests? |
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Definition
| red maple, black gum, tupelo gum, ash, water oak, elm |
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Term
| Where are the 2 largest areas of Hardwood Forest located? |
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Definition
| In Alachua and Marion Counties and along the FL-GA border between the Apalachicola and Aucilla Rivers |
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Term
| What are the soil types in the Hardwood Forests? |
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Definition
| Utisols, consisting of red clays and loams in the North and |
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Term
| What plants are Characteristic of the Hardwood Forests? |
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Definition
| Short leaf, loblolly and longleaf pines on drier uplands and red oak, white oak, dogwood, redbud, sweet gum, bay and black gum |
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Term
| What plants are characteristic of the Hardwood and Pine Forests? |
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Definition
| On the slopes: short leaf pines mixed with magnolia and other hardwoods. In the ravines: beech, bay, poplar, and water oak. In the bluffs and ravines: magnolia, holly, willow, maple, and white oak |
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Term
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Definition
| An ecosystem maintained by high intensity, infrequesnt fires - catastrophic or stand replacing fires. Scrub Forests are pyrogenic ecosystems. |
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Term
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Definition
| Longleaf pine, deciduous oaks & wire grass (3 strata) |
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Term
| How would you describe Hammocks in FL? |
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Definition
| narrow bands of vegetation confined to slopes between upland sand / clayhill pinelands |
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| What are the 3 hammock designations? |
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Definition
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Definition
| Elongated patterns of cypress trees found along soughs and other linear bodies of water |
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Definition
| Consist of strands of tall cypress trees in the center of the area and shorter cypress trees growing out from the center. An open pond or body of water occupies the center of the dome. Found in Big Cypress Swamp |
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Term
| Upland pine and scrub oak open forest vegetation |
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Definition
| Black jack oaks and turkey oaks. Some saw paletto wiregrass, myrtle and rosemary |
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Term
| How do marshes differ grom swamps? |
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Definition
| Trees domniante in swamps and grasses, sedges and reeds are prodomniant in marshes. |
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Term
| Where is the largest marsh located? |
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Definition
| Below the 28th parallel (Tampa) mainly in the Evergaldes |
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Term
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Definition
Saw grass, Custard apple, willow-elderberry, water lilies, pond weeds, bladderwort,
Red bay, sweet bay, wax myrtle and dahoon holly
blue flag, arrowhead
cattail marshes (brackish water)
spike rush marshes - spike rush, bulrushes, fringe rushes, maindencane, panic grasses |
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Term
| Vegetation in marshes north of Lake O |
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Definition
| grasses, sedges, aquatic plants, vinesand shrubs, and a few willows |
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Term
| What are the 3 species of Mangroves in FL? |
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Definition
red, black and white
red - outer zone
black - inland on mud flats
white - most inland, oval leaves mixed with buttonwoods |
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Term
| Where do mangrove forests exist? |
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Definition
| St. Augustine around the tip of FL to Cedar Key |
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Term
| Where do salt marshes occur? |
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Definition
| Occupies the transistion zone between mangrove trees of the salt ad brackish waters and the saw grass which lives in fresh waters |
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Term
| What other plants occur in salt marshes? |
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Definition
| Salt, cord and switch grasses |
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Term
| What vegeation occurs in the Tropical and Subtropical Hardwood Forests? |
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Definition
Trees: Strangler fig, wild tamarind, gumbo limbo, mastic, bustic, stoppers & royal palm. northern hammocks: hackberry, mudberry & red maple
Plants: lancewood, ironwoodm wild coffee, crabwood, potato tree, myrsine, poisonwood, satinleaf, papaya, pigeon plum, Jamaica dogwood |
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Term
| What vines and epiphytes grow in the Tropical and Subtropical Hadwood forest? |
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Definition
non-terrestial orchids, airplants
rattan vine, bullace grape, possum grape, poison grape, poison ivy, pepper vine & rubber vine |
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Term
| What rare tropical plants grow along the southern coast and the Keys? |
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Definition
| West Indian mahogany, lignum vitae, thatch palm & the manchineel. |
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Term
| What tree species are found in the Miami rock ridge hammock? |
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Definition
| Gumbo limbo, pigeon plum, white stopper, wild tamarind, live oak, mastic, willow bustic, strangler fig, cabbage palms. |
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Term
| What understory species are found in the Miami rock ridge hammock? |
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Definition
| lancewood, inkwood, white stopper, marlberry, red muberry, satinleaf, myrsine, West Indies cherry, wild coffee, crabwood, black ironwood, rough velvetseed |
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Term
| What woody vines and spawlers are found in the Miami rock ridge hammock? |
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Definition
| Devil's claw, muscadine, virginia creeper, poison ivy, snowberry |
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