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- Via [kottke](https://kottke.org/22/02/do-you-know-where-youre-at):
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- > In 1981, [Coevolution Quarterly](#coevolution quarterly) published a 20 question quiz written by [Leonard Charles](#leonard charles), [Jim Dodge](#jim dodge), [Lynn Milliman](#lynn milliman), and [Victoria Stockley](#victoria stockley) that is designed to reveal how well you know your local natural environment. Here are the questions:
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- > Trace the water you drink from precipitation to tap.
- How many days til the moon is full? (Slack of 2 days allowed.)
- What soil series are you standing on?
- What was the total rainfall in your area last year (July-June)? (Slack: 1 inch for every 20 inches.)
- When was the last time a fire burned in your area?
- What were the primary subsistence techniques of the culture that lived in your area before you?
- Name 5 edible plants in your region and their season(s) of availability.
- From what direction do winter storms generally come in your region?
- Where does your garbage go?
- How long is the growing season where you live?
- On what day of the year are the shadows the shortest where you live?
- When do the deer rut in your region, and when are the young born?
- Name five grasses in your area. Are any of them native?
- Name five resident and five migratory birds in your area.
- What is the land use history of where you live?
- What primary ecological event/process influenced the land form where you live? (Bonus special: what’s the evidence?)
- What species have become extinct in your area?
- What are the major plant associations in your region?
- From where you’re reading this, point north.
- What spring wildflower is consistently among the first to bloom where you live?
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- I feel *emotionally troubled* about how few I can answer! I wonder if anyone else is similarly spurred to put this together for [Seattle](#seattle)... They're obviously not all of equal weight; it's far more embarrassing that I can't tell you the dates of first and last frost than our shortest-shadow date.
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