| Word
| Definition
|
| Amphibian |
A living thing able to live both on land and in water and are cold-blooded animals. |
| Bayou |
A slow moving stream of water. Armand Bayou flows through ABNC. |
| Bird |
Warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate animals (have a back bone). Body covered with feathers and the forelimbs modified as wings. |
| Brackish |
The mix of water when a fresh waterway mixes with a salty waterway. |
| Ecosystem |
A community or neighborhood in nature and the animals, plants and the area they live in. |
| Erosion |
Wearing away of the soil by water or wind. |
| Estuarine |
An estuary is the habitat formed when a fresh waterway mixes with a salty waterway. Armand Bayou is an estuarine bayou or estuary. |
| Fish |
A cold-blooded vertebrate animal with a typically long scaly tapering body, limbs developed as fins and a vertical tail fin that lives and breathes in water. |
| Habitat |
A community or neighborhood in nature and the animals, plants and the area they live in. |
| Insect |
Small invertebrate (no back boned) animals that are more or less obviously made up of segments. |
| Mammal |
Warm-blooded vertebrates that include human beings . Feed their young with milk and have the skin usually more or less covered with hair. |
| Prairie |
A habitat of flat land where grass is the predominant plant. Mixed in with the grasses are many types of wildflowers. |
| Prairie Pothole |
Depression in a prairie that holds rainwater. Potholes can be wet several months to year round. |
| Reptile |
Cold-blooded air-breathing vertebrates that usually lay eggs and have skin covered with scales or bony plates (snakes, lizards, turtles, and alligators) . |
| Shellfish |
An invertebrate animal that lives in water and has a shell |
| Species |
A category of living things that ranks below a genus, is made up of related individuals able to produce fertile offspring and is identified by a two-part scientific name. |
| Watershed |
The area that drains into a river or lake. The Armand Bayou watershed covers 64 miles. |
