Download Scavenger Hunt

Scavenger Hunt
Want to explore nature and the biology of the
Georgia while earning some extra credit? Go
on a biology scavenger hunt! A list of items or
places to visit is provided below. For each
item or place you visit, take a picture of YOU
holding the item or visiting the location. Then,
organize the photo results of your scavenger
hunt in either a PowerPoint presentation or a
photo scrapbook. When designing your photo
presentation, please include the title of the
item or location you visited next to each photo
or on the slide itself.
A list of potential places to visit during the
scavenger hunt is provided below. Before you
go, try to get an idea of some of the items
from the scavenger hunt list that you will be
able to find at that location! Visiting one place
may allow you to “check off” and earn points
for multiple items on the list!
1. Fernbank Science Center
2. Atlanta Botanical Gardens
3. Georgia Aquarium
4. Sweetwater Creek State Park
5. Chattahoochee Nature Center
6. Atlanta Zoo
7. Callaway Gardens
8. Any Georgia State Park
9. Any National Park
10. Georgia Coastline
The following rules apply to the Scavenger
Hunt and should be followed throughout the
collecting:
1. Please take care in NOT
DESTROYING any habitats as you
collect or visit.
2. Plants that have red spots or red areas
on the stem or leaf may be poisonousDO NOT TOUCH!
3. Collect specimens carefully. Do not
remove any item from the habitat in
which it is found. That means you must
take your picture in the field, not bring
the item home with you to photograph.
However, some items may be found in
your home, in which case it is OK to
photograph them there.
4. A photograph of you with an item from
the list can only count once. For
example, if you take a picture with a
mushroom, that picture can be used for
either MUSHROOM or FUNGUS, but
not both.
5. When photographing, you may want to
keep a written index of what items are
shown in which photograph for later
reference.
6. You may work with your friends, lab
partners, parents or siblings, but you'll
have to do your research beforehand -use your book, internet or library
references to determine what the
specimen is and where to find it.
7. You may NOT have someone else’s
photo in your album, unless you are
also in the photo. These photos will
simply not count.
8. No internet photos may be used.
9. Get started right away and have FUN!!
Each of the items listed below will earn
you 1 extra credit class work point.
There are 250 items total… that’s 250
extra points you could earn!!
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Acorn
Aggregate fruit
Algae
Amniotic egg
Amphibian adult
Amphibian larva
Angiosperm
Animal larva or pupa
Animal skull, without muscle tissue
Animal track
Annual plant
Ants
Ape
Arachnid
Armadillo
Atlantic Ocean
Autotroph
Azalea
Bamboo
Basidomycota
Beehive
Beetle
Beluga Whale
Birch Tree
Bivalve shell
Black walnut leaves
Bracket fungi
Branch with alternate budding
Branch with opposite budding
Branch with whorled leaves
Bromeliad
Bryophyte
Bulb
Butterfly eating fruit
Butterfly sunning
Cactus
Carnivore
Carnivorous dinosaur
Carnivorous plant
Carpetweed plant (watch out - it'll stick to
you!)
Caterpillar
Catkin
Cattail plant (leaves, spikes)
Cedar tree
Chrysalis
Cicada or locust
Clam, freshwater, whole organism
Cnidarian
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Community
Complete flower
Composite flower
Consumer
Coral
Coral Reef
Cotyledon
Crape Myrtle tree
Crayfish
Cricket
Crustacean
Cycad
Dicot flower
Dicot plant
Dioecious plant
Dogwood leaf
Down feather
Drupe
Duckweed
Earthworm
Ecological succession
Ectothermic animal
Electrophoresis machine
Elephant
Endangered species
Epiphyte
Equisetum
Example of a plant adaptation
Example of an animal adaptation
Example of asexual reproduction
Example of batesian mimicry
Example of commensalism
Example of hazardous waste disposal
Example of mullerian mimicry
Example of mutualism
Family Felidae
Family Lemuridae
Feature of a dinosaur similar to a lizard
Feature of a dinosaur similar to birds
Femur of a chicken
Fiddlehead fern
Filicynophyte
Fish
Flight feather
Flower containing anthocyanin
Flower containing xanthophyll
Flower pollinated by insect
Flower pollinated by wind or gravity
Flower representative of the grasses
Flower with a solitary inflorescence
Follicle
Frond
Furculum of the chicken
Genetic variation within a population
Genus Giraffa
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Genus Loxodonta
Genus Ursus
Gingko leaf
Grasshopper
Grub
Gymnosperm
Habitat under ecological restoration
Hackberry leaf
Herbivore
Herbivorous dinosaur
Heterotroph
Hiking trail
Honey locust leaf
Horseshoe Crab, not in the classroom
Horsetail
Humerus of a chicken
Imperfect flower
Incomplete flower
Insect
Insect adaptation
Insect exoskeleton
Insect used for food
Insect with no wings
Insect with one pair of wings
Insect with two pairs of wings
Isopod
Kudzu vine
Ladybug
Leaf scar
Leaf with a dentate margin
Leaf with an entire leaf margin
Leaf with an incised margin
Leaf with doubly serrate margin
Leaf with palmate venation
Leaf with parallel venation
Leaf with pinnate venation
Leaf with serrate margin
Leech
Lenticel
Lichen
Litter being cleaned up
Live Oak tree
Lizard
Maggot
Maple seed
Mating behavior in animals
Modified leaf example (be able to name)
Mold
Mollusk
Mollusk
Monkey
Monocot flower
Monocot plant
Mosquito
Moss
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Mulberry (red or white) leaf
Mushroom
Octopus
Orchid
Organism's home
Owl pellet - do not handle or tear apart
Palm
Palmately compound leaf
Parasite and host
PCR machine
Peach tree
Pine cone (ovulate)
Pine cone (pollen)
Pine leaf
Pinnately compound leaf (once)
Pinnately compound leaf (twice)
Planaria
Plant representative of the carnation (pink)
family
Plant representative of the legume family
Plant representative of the lily family
Plant representative of the mint family
Plant representative of the mustard family
Plant representative of the rose family
Plant which reproduces vegetatively
Plant with a diffuse root
Plant with a tap root
Pome
Population
Porifera
Predator
Prey
Producer
Product made by bacteria used by humans
Product made by insects used by humans
Product made from recycled materials
Protozoa
Quercus leaf
Recyclable item
Red clover
Red maple leaf
Redbud leaf
Representative of the Class Aves
Representative of the Class Osteichthyes
Representative of the Class Reptilia
Representative of the Order Coleoptera
Representative of the Order Diptera
Representative of the Order Hymenoptera
Representative of the Order Lepidoptera
Representative of the Order Orthoptera
Representative of the Phylum Annelida
Representative of the Phylum Arthropoda
Representative of the Phylum
Echinodermata
Research lab
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Rhizome
Salamander
Salmon
Scavenger
Science based lecture at a university
Scientific Journal: Nature
Scientific Journal: Science
Seed dispersal by animals
Seed dispersal by wind or water
Sepals on a flower
Red maple leaf
Simple leaf
Slug
Snail
Snake
Snake skin (molted)
Sowbug
Spanish moss
Spider Crabs
Spider web
Sporophyte and gametophyte (generations
of the same plant)
Squid
Stem or branch with thorns
Stone fruit
Succulent leaves
Sweet Gum tree
Sycamore fruit/flowers
Sycamore leaf
Territorial behavior in animals
Thistle (musk)
Tick
Tide lands
Tree more than 6 foot in diameter
Tuber
Two different life stages of the same
organism
Univalve shell
Wetland
Whale Shark
Wild indigo flower
Wild violet flower
Willow leaves
Wood sorrel plant