| A | B |
|---|
| Observation | What you see, hear or feel. |
| Quantitative | Things that can be measured or counted. |
| Qualitative | Observations that describe, like its hot in here!! |
| Prescribed Burn | Intentionally setting fires to benefit an ecosystem. |
| Fire Dependent Species | Living things that need fire to improve their habitat. |
| Invasive Species | Plant species like spotted Knapweed that take nutrients away from native plant species. |
| Passerine | Birds that perch or limbs or wires. |
| Macroinvertebrate | Animals without backbones that are more than one half millimeter in size. |
| Invertebrate | Living organisms that have no backbones. |
| Intolerent | macroinvertebrates that cannot survive in stressed/polluted water. |
| Tolerant | Macroinvertebrates that can survive in stressed or polluted water. |
| Shrubs | low woody plants with many major stems, usually live more than one year. |
| Forbs | Non woody plants that flower, non grasses. |
| Grasses | Narrow, blade like plants. |
| Hydrology | study of water in all its forms. |
| Ornithology | the study of birds. |
| Point Source Pollution | the pollution is from one area or source. |
| Non Point Source Pollution | the pollution source is not precisely known. |
| Watershed | the land area that drains the precipitation into a river system. |
| Dichotomous Key | tool scientists use to help identify objects or living organisms. |
