Education Program

John Minadeo Elementary School
1997 Homework
Science Teacher-Mary Novario 
What is Vegetation?


Grassland 
What kind of plants grow in the area? 
Grass, weeds, shrubs, daisies, and flowers. 

What kind of wildlife could live in the area? 
Skunks, snakes, eagles, badgers, rabbits, insects, and butterflies. 
 

Forest 
What kind of plants grow in the area? 
Moss, trees, shrubs, grass, herbs, bushes, flowers, weeds, and poison ivy. 

What kind of wildlife could live in the area? 
Insects, birds, rodents, deer, racoons, squirrels, snakes, and chipmunks. 
 

Riparian 
What kind of plants grow in the area? 
Algae, weeds, grass, and trees. 

What kind of wildlife could live in the area? 
Leaches, fish, toads, parasites, birds, worms, snakes, frogs, dragonfly larvae, and flies. 
 

Bare Slag Slopes 
What kind of plants grow in the area? 
Shrubs, grass, trees, some kind of grass but not so much. 

What kind of wildlife could live in the area? 
Racoons, foxes, birds, snakes, insects, and spiders.

Vegetated Slag Slopes 
What kind of plants grow in the area? 
Small trees, shrubs, vines, aspen, sumac, box elder, locust, honeysuckle, grapes, weeds, and bushes. 

What kind of wildlife could live in the area? 
Insects, birds, small ground animals, spiders, butterflies, grasshoppers, rabbits, flies, worms, bees, snakes, and locust. 
 

 
Slag Plateau 
What kind of plants grow in the area? 
A little bit of grass, dandelions, and clovers. 

What kind of wildlife could live in the area? 
Birds, toads, bugs, rabbits, lady bugs, spiders, ants, and frogs.