Note: These are questions that may be used as an evaluation of what students have learned about the prairie.

They can be used in a game format, by dividing students into teams.

Questions About The PRAIRIE

1. What are native prairie grasses?

2. Name a native prairie grass on the prairie.

3. What season of the year do native grasses grow the best?

4. What are two ways to manage a prairie, that is, to keep it growing well.

5. Why might a prairie be burned? Give one reason.

6. Name two insects found on the prairie.

7. Name the prairie outside of Lincoln.

8. Nine-mile prairie is a virgin prairie as opposed to a restored prairie. What is the difference?

9. What is a perennial plant?

10. What is a forb?