by Coyne FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION Part 1 Water

by Coyne FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION Part 1

Water Vocabulary Environmental Impact Sustainable Storm water Treatment 100 100 200 200 300 300 400 400 500 500

What is the Chesapeake Bay? The name of our large regional watershed. Row 1, Col 1

1) renewable resource, 2) non-renewable resources, 3) point source pollution 4) non-point source pollution 1) Resources that can be replaced usually with in a life time. 2) Resources that can be replaced usually with in a life time. 3) Chimney smoke is an example 4) Fertilizer in water is an example 1, 2

Who is Rachel Carson? 1) Environmental Pioneer who started the Environmental Movement 1, 3

What are soakage trench & dry well? Which sustainable storm water treatment elements are always put underground? 1, 4

1) Storage Pond 2) Potable Water 3) Aquifer 1) A ________ is an area of land designed to hold water near the run-off ultimately refilling the water table. This is also man made to help control with flooding. 2) _______ is safe to drink. 3) ______ is underground water supply. 2, 1

1) Artesian Well 2) Regular Well 3) Transpiration 4) Desalination 1) Water bubbling to the surface not dug or pumped. 2) This must be dug and pumped. 3) The release of water vapors by plants 4) The removal of salt from water. 2, 2

Who is Rachel Carson? DDT (insecticide ________ wrote Silent Spring which warned about the effects of ____ on animals, especially birds 2, 3

What is Eco Roof? 2, 4

What VA, MD, DEL, WV, PA, & NY? The 6 states that are in the largest regional watershed. 3, 1

1) Riparian Zone 2) 2) Unsaturated Zone 1) The vegetation along a waterway. 2) The area underground between the surface and an aquifer; contains air spaces between dirt particles; not full of water. 3, 2

What is DDT? This caused the shells of the eggs to be too weak so the baby birds died. 3, 3

What are planter boxes, rain gardens, vegetated swales, eco roof and trees? Which sustainable storm water treatment are truly considered landscaping elements? 3, 4

1) What is 64 square miles? 2) What is 30 miles? 1)How much area (square miles) is in our watershed? 2)How far is it across the widest part of the Bay? 4, 1

1) Recharge 2) Sinking Hole and South Eastern part of Virginia. 3) Sinking Hole in Western Part of Virginia (Mountains) 1) The water table is replenished by precipitation; adding of water to the aquifer 1) ________ occur in _______ due to irrigation of farmland. 2) ________ occurs in ______ due to sudden collapse of land due to the erosion of the underlying rock by underground 4, 2

Small farming villages in England disappearing due to may sheep on the fields. People used a resource (land) that was held in common thinking that someone else was responsible. The main message for “Tragedy of the Commons. ” 4, 3

What is Cistern? Which sustainable storm water treatment would store water for household use? 4, 4

What Susquehanna River, James River, Potomac River, Patapsco Rive, York River, and Rappahannock River? Name the 6 rivers in our watershed. 5, 1

1) Percolate 2) Permeate 3) Sustainable 4) Effluent 1) Downward dripping of water 2) To spread through something, like perfume in the air 3) The wise use of resources so that they are available for future generations 4) Water exiting a pipe (often polluted and from a factory or power plant) 5, 2

1) The chemicals is Acid Rain are S 02 and NOx. 2) East Coast Acid Rain comes from the Midwest coal burning power plants. 1) What are the main chemicals responsible for acid rain? 2) What is the main source for acid rain in the East? 5, 3

What is a Cistern? A sustainable storm water treatment that can be used on a roof, on the ground, and underground? 5, 4

What 1) Eutrophication, 2) Alkalinity? 1) The build up of algae because of excessive nutrients. There are too many nutrients in the water system which causes an algal bloom. “overstimulation of growth of aquatic plants and algae” causes a reduction of oxygen and effectively creating a dead zone FINAL JEOPARDY 2) The ability to buffer changes in p. H in water; resists change in water p. H