The Real Florida

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The Real Florida

• What is Native?

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In your opinionwhat does the term native mean?

• Indigenous to the area
• It is part of that system
• It has to have a predator and a food source, fits
  in the food web
• Whatever was there before humans

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OKwhats exotic?

• From somewhere else
• Something different from normal
• Endemicit occurs nowhere else

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Lets take a quiz

• Which of the following is a native animal to
  Florida
• Alligator--
• Armadillo1940s
• Love bugs1940s
• Florida pantherFelis concolor var. coryi

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Native quiz continued

• Which of the following is native to Florida
• The Space Shuttle
• Mickey Mouse
• Indian teepees
• An live oak tree

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Native quiz (cont.)

• 3) Which of the following plants is native?
• a) Florida holly (Schinus terebinthifolius)Braz
  ilian pepper
• b) Key limes (Citrus spp.)--China
• c) St. Augustine grass--Africa
• d) Virginia live oak (Quercus virginiana)

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Native quiz (cont.)

• Which of the following palms is from Florida
• Washingtonia palmst. leo
• Canary island date palmst. leo
• Palmetto palmState tree of Florida native
• Saw palmettonative

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Native quiz (cont.)

• 5) Which of the following people were found in
  Florida before the arrival of Europeans?
• a) ArapahoS. Texas
• b) TonkawaC. tExas
• c) Timucuan--Florida
• d) ComancheLower Plains States

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Native quiz (cont.)

• 6) What was native when the first people arrived
  in Florida?
• Armadillos40s with the circus
• Ground sloths
• Wooly mammoths
• T. rex