Nature's Apprentice Geocaching Adventure Passport

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The Nature’s Apprentice Geocaching Adventure at the Arnold Arboretum

The Nature’s Apprentice Geocaching Adventure is funded through NSF and by TERC, with in-kind support from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Geocaching.com.

It is part of the Educational Gaming Environments (EdGE) at TERC’s STEMLandia initiative of outside gaming adventures.

For more information on EdGE at TERC visit:

edge.terc.edu or stemlandia.com contact us: stemlandia@terc.edu

Open the Door

Fitness of Leaves

Sum of all Parts

Chemical Warfare

To access this code and unlock the cache, find the one star among the cultivars.

Are the sun leaves larger or smaller than the shade leaves on a maple?

What is the Accession number for this Ginkgo?

What kind of circus candy does the katsura smell like?

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Firefighters

What is one name for this fire adapted giant?

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Citizen Science

Newton <3 Biology

Plant Barcodes

What is one of the primary forces a plant must beat to get water from the ground to its top?

Take the simplest code found in all living things, arrange and replace first to last, then drop the naught.

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Bug Launch

What is the common name for the plant chosen for the Arboretum study?

To find the code for this cache and lock, start with a pollinator that would live here and make it count.

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CryptoBotanica

Which pattern on the map led you to the log for this cache?

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Point your smartphone browser to the Geocaching Labs page for this adventure at: labs.geocaching.com/goto/edgestemlandia

or bit.ly/1dmPNHN Discover the 10 Lab Caches and enter the codes for each on your passport and online to be eligable to win a STEMLandia collectable geocoin. Drop your completed passport in the slot at the top of the Bug Launch cache located in the visitor center entry way. Please fill in your user name and e-mail so we can inform you if you win and to send a link to a research survey about your experience. Thanks for playing!

User Name: ____________________ Date: _________ e-mail: ___________________________________

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