Here are the questions all in one message to make them easier to respond to:
1) These trees have swollen sore-like patches caused by scale insects
2) Loons must run on the water in order to get enough lift to fly. Why?
3) This small plant, with five leaflets, will have a cluster of very dark berries. (You can see the blooms below the leaves.) The berries have been used to make soda. What are the plant and the soda called?
4) This little plant is called bunchberry. It is closely related to what common decorative tree?
5) Name a key difference between damsel flies and dragon flies. Which one is this?
6) True or false: Bald eagles generally mate for life.
7) When a pine tree dies some time before it falls, flammable saps drain to lower parts of the trunk, leading to wood that burns like this. Give one or two names for this type of wood, commonly used as a fire starter. (I know of at least three names for it.)
8) The pink granite that makes up much of Mount Desert Island is also common in what mountain range? This recognition lent credence to the theory of plate tectonics.
9) This orchid is common to coastal regions on both sides of the Atlantic.
10) Old man’s beard (which I’d always thought was Spanish moss, but that doesn’t grow as far north as Mt Desert) is an epiphytic type of what life form that’s a combination of fungus and algae?
11) This caterpillar will turn into a monarch butterfly, which is well-known among its predators to be toxic. But it’s not congenitally toxic. What causes the toxicity?
12) These are the blooms of what carnivorous plant that lures its prey down into a pool of digestive juices?
13) Gray squirrels tend to live in deciduous forests, while these squirrels tend to live in coniferous forests.
14) Those couple of light-colored boulders were deposited by glaciers. What’s the term for rocks that’s happened to?
15) These sorts of fungi that grow out usually parallel to the ground are named for something you might set a book on.