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67 relations: Alder, Algae, Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Aliso Creek (Orange County), Aliso Viejo, California, Alluvium, Arundo donax, Avila family of California, Bald eagle, Bobcat, Bryozoa, California, California gnatcatcher, Carp, Chaparral, Coastal sage scrub, Cougar, Coyote, Drainage divide, Drop structure, Environmental degradation, Erosion, Grassland, Grazing, Ice age, Invertebrate, Juaneño, Laguna Beach, California, Laguna Canyon, Laguna Niguel Regional Park, Laguna Niguel, California, Last glacial period, Live oak, Lynx, Miocene, Monterey Formation, North America, Northern tidewater goby, Oak, Orange County, California, Orchard, Pacific Northwest, Pen (enclosure), Plankton, Rancho Niguel, Riparian zone, River engineering, Salt marsh, San Joaquin Hills, San Juan Creek, ..., Sangamonian, Santa Ana Mountains, Sea level, Semi-arid climate, Sewage treatment, Sewerage, Spaniards, Spanish language, Sycamore, Tongva, U-shaped valley, United States, Urban runoff, Valley, Water gap, Wisconsin glaciation, Wood Canyon Creek. Expand index (17 more) »
Alder
Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants (Alnus) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae.
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Algae
Algae (singular alga) is an informal term for a large, diverse group of photosynthetic organisms that are not necessarily closely related, and is thus polyphyletic.
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Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park
Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park is a major regional park in the San Joaquin Hills of Orange County, California in the United States.
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Aliso Creek (Orange County)
Aliso Creek (Spanish for "Alder Creek"; also called Alisos Creek) is a -long urban stream that runs through Orange County in the U.S. state of California from the Santa Ana Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
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Aliso Viejo, California
Aliso Viejo is a city in the San Joaquin Hills of southern Orange County, California.
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Alluvium
Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.
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Arundo donax
Arundo donax, giant cane, is a tall perennial cane, is one of several so-called reed species.
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Avila family of California
Cornelio Ávila was the founder of a large and prominent southern California family.
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Bald eagle
The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek ἅλς, hals "sea", αἰετός aietos "eagle", λευκός, leukos "white", κεφαλή, kephalē "head") is a bird of prey found in North America.
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Bobcat
The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a North American cat that appeared during the Irvingtonian stage of around 1.8 million years ago (AEO).
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Bryozoa
Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California gnatcatcher
The California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica) is a small long insectivorous bird which frequents dense coastal sage scrub growth.
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Carp
Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia.
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Chaparral
Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico.
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Coastal sage scrub
Coastal sage scrub, also known as coastal scrub, CSS, or soft chaparral, is a low scrubland plant community of the California coastal sage and chaparral subecoregion, found in coastal California and northwestern coastal Baja California.
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Cougar
The cougar (Puma concolor), also commonly known as the mountain lion, puma, panther, or catamount, is a large felid of the subfamily Felinae native to the Americas.
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Coyote
The coyote (Canis latrans); from Nahuatl) is a canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the gray wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia, though it is larger and more predatory, and is sometimes called the American jackal by zoologists. The coyote is listed as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature due to its wide distribution and abundance throughout North America, southwards through Mexico, and into Central America. The species is versatile, able to adapt to and expand into environments modified by humans. It is enlarging its range, with coyotes moving into urban areas in the Eastern U.S., and was sighted in eastern Panama (across the Panama Canal from their home range) for the first time in 2013., 19 coyote subspecies are recognized. The average male weighs and the average female. Their fur color is predominantly light gray and red or fulvous interspersed with black and white, though it varies somewhat with geography. It is highly flexible in social organization, living either in a family unit or in loosely knit packs of unrelated individuals. It has a varied diet consisting primarily of animal meat, including deer, rabbits, hares, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, though it may also eat fruits and vegetables on occasion. Its characteristic vocalization is a howl made by solitary individuals. Humans are the coyote's greatest threat, followed by cougars and gray wolves. In spite of this, coyotes sometimes mate with gray, eastern, or red wolves, producing "coywolf" hybrids. In the northeastern United States and eastern Canada, the eastern coyote (a larger subspecies, though still smaller than wolves) is the result of various historical and recent matings with various types of wolves. Genetic studies show that most North American wolves contain some level of coyote DNA. The coyote is a prominent character in Native American folklore, mainly in the Southwestern United States and Mexico, usually depicted as a trickster that alternately assumes the form of an actual coyote or a man. As with other trickster figures, the coyote uses deception and humor to rebel against social conventions. The animal was especially respected in Mesoamerican cosmology as a symbol of military might. After the European colonization of the Americas, it was reviled in Anglo-American culture as a cowardly and untrustworthy animal. Unlike wolves (gray, eastern, or red), which have undergone an improvement of their public image, attitudes towards the coyote remain largely negative.
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Drainage divide
A drainage divide, water divide, divide, ridgeline, watershed, or water parting is the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins.
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Drop structure
A drop structure, also known as a grade control, sill, or weir, is a manmade structure, typically small and built on minor streams, or as part of a dam's spillway, to pass water to a lower elevation while controlling the energy and velocity of the water as it passes over.
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Environmental degradation
Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems; habitat destruction; the extinction of wildlife; and pollution.
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Erosion
In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).
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Grassland
Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.
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Grazing
Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on plants such as grasses, or other multicellular organisms such as algae.
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Ice age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Invertebrate
Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a backbone or spine), derived from the notochord.
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Juaneño
The Juaneño or Acjachemen are an indigenous people of California.
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Laguna Beach, California
Laguna Beach is a seaside resort city located in southern Orange County, California, in the United States.
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Laguna Canyon
Laguna Canyon (also called Cañada de las Lagunas, meaning "Lake Canyon" in Spanish) is the name of a canyon that cuts through the San Joaquin Hills in southern Orange County, California, in the United States, directly south of the city of Irvine.
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Laguna Niguel Regional Park
Laguna Niguel Regional Park is a public park in Laguna Niguel, in southern Orange County, California.
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Laguna Niguel, California
Laguna Niguel is a suburban city in Orange County, California in the United States.
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Last glacial period
The last glacial period occurred from the end of the Eemian interglacial to the end of the Younger Dryas, encompassing the period years ago.
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Live oak
Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage.
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Lynx
A lynx (plural lynx or lynxes) is any of the four species (Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, Eurasian lynx, Bobcat) within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Monterey Formation
The Monterey Formation is an extensive Miocene oil-rich geological sedimentary formation in California, with outcrops of the formation in parts of the California Coast Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, and on some of California's off-shore islands.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Northern tidewater goby
Eucyclogobius newberryi, the Northern tidewater goby, is a species of goby native to lagoons of streams along the coast of California, United States.
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Oak
An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (Latin "oak tree") of the beech family, Fagaceae.
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Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California.
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Orchard
An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs that is maintained for food production.
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Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.
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Pen (enclosure)
A pen is an enclosure for holding animals such as livestock or pets that are unwanted inside the house.
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Plankton
Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.
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Rancho Niguel
Rancho Niguel was a Mexican land grant in the San Joaquin Hills, within present-day Orange County, California.
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Riparian zone
A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream.
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River engineering
River engineering is the process of planned human intervention in the course, characteristics, or flow of a river with the intention of producing some defined benefit.
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Salt marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides.
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San Joaquin Hills
The San Joaquin Hills are a low mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System, located in coastal Orange County, California.
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San Juan Creek
San Juan Creek, also called the San Juan River, is a long stream in Orange County, California draining a watershed of.
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Sangamonian
The Sangamonian Stage (or Sangamon interglacial) is the term used in North America to designate the last interglacial.
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Santa Ana Mountains
The Santa Ana Mountains are a short peninsular mountain range along the coast of Southern California in the United States.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL) (often shortened to sea level) is an average level of the surface of one or more of Earth's oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured.
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.
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Sewage treatment
Sewage treatment is the process of removing contaminants from wastewater, primarily from household sewage.
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Sewerage
Sewerage is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff (stormwater, meltwater, rainwater) using sewers.
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Spaniards
Spaniards are a Latin European ethnic group and nation.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Sycamore
Sycamore is a name which has been applied at various times and places to several different types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms.
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Tongva
The Tongva are Native Americans who inhabited the Los Angeles Basin and the Southern Channel Islands, an area covering approximately.
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U-shaped valley
U-shaped valleys, trough valleys or glacial troughs, are formed by the process of glaciation.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Urban runoff
Urban runoff is surface runoff of rainwater created by urbanization.
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Valley
A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.
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Water gap
A water gap is a gap that flowing water has carved through a mountain range or mountain ridge.
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Wisconsin glaciation
The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsinan glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex.
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Wood Canyon Creek
Wood Canyon Creek is a perennial stream in Aliso and Wood Canyons Wilderness Park, Orange County, California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliso_Canyon
