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Watershed Challenge . Beaver Water District

Watershed Challenge . Beaver Water District. Grade Eight. Instructions: Launch power point as slideshow. Click on the number of points under a category title. The answer to a question will appear. Say the question that corresponds to the answer.

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Watershed Challenge . Beaver Water District

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  1. Watershed Challenge.Beaver Water District Grade Eight Instructions: Launch power point as slideshow. Click on the number of points under a category title. The answer to a question will appear. Say the question that corresponds to the answer. Click on the answer and the correct question will appear. If contestant said the correct answer, he/she will receive the appropriate number of points. Click on Question wording to return to the main game board for the next round of play. When all game board items have been answered (or class time is almost over), click on “Final Challenge” for the final question.

  2. Final Challenge Topographic Maps Water Erosion Changes Watersheds Beaver Water District Quiz 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

  3. Blue on a topographic map

  4. What is water?

  5. Green on a topographic map

  6. What are woodlands?

  7. Brown lines on a topographic map

  8. What are contour lines?

  9. The stream direction denoted by V-shaped contour lines.

  10. What is upstream?

  11. Points of equal elevation.

  12. What do contour lines show?

  13. Wind, water, glaciers

  14. What are agents of erosion?

  15. Eroded particles settle out of water.

  16. What is sedimentation?

  17. Improves crop productivity and landscaping but may leach into the ground water supply or be carried during erosion.

  18. What is fertilizer (and/or animal manure?)

  19. Large mass of frozen water that moves slowly over earth’s surface, eroding it

  20. What is a glacier?

  21. Bare fields, housing projects, construction sites, or cities as initial sites for sediments

  22. What are non point sources?

  23. The major agent for shaping much of earth’s surface

  24. What is running water?

  25. Determined by the stream’s slope and discharge

  26. What is a stream’s speed?

  27. For a stream, may vary from a few centimeters to several kilometers

  28. What is the width of the stream?

  29. Type of load made up of ions from chemical weathering that have dissolved in water

  30. What is dissolved load?

  31. Type of load made up of coarser, denser particles that stay on the bottom of the stream most of the time but occasionally move by “jumping”

  32. What is bed load?

  33. The name of the watershed that provides water for the Beaver Water District

  34. What is Beaver Lake Watershed?

  35. General term for streams that flow into the White River

  36. What are tributaries?

  37. An area of land that drains water, sediment, and dissolved materials to a common receiving body

  38. What is a watershed?

  39. Counties for whose residents, Beaver Water District is the primary water source

  40. What are Benton and Washington Counties?

  41. The year that Beaver Dam was completed (choices: 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978)

  42. What is 1966?

  43. The primary source of drinking water for cities in Northwest Arkansas.

  44. What is Beaver Lake? (Beaver Water District)

  45. Land that drains water to a common area.

  46. What is a watershed?

  47. Cloudiness in water.

  48. What is turbidity?

  49. The primary pollutant threatening the water quality in the West Fork of the White River.

  50. What is sediment?

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