Watershed ChallengeWatershed Challenge.

Beaver Water DistrictBeaver Water DistrictGrade EightGrade Eight

Instructions: Launch power point as slideshow.1.Click on the number of points under a category title.2.The answer to a question will appear.3.Say the question that corresponds to the answer.4.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.5.Click on Question wording to return to the main game board for the next round of play.6.When all game board items have been answered (or class time is almost over), click on “Final Challenge” for the final question.

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Final Challenge

Blue on a topographic map

What is water?

Green on a topographic map

What are woodlands?

Brown lines on a topographic map

What are contour lines?

The stream direction denoted by V-shaped

contour lines.

What is upstream?

Points of equal elevation.

What do contour lines

show?

Wind, water, glaciers

What are agents of erosion?

Eroded particles settle out of water.

What is sedimentation?

Improves crop productivity and

landscaping but may leach into the ground

water supply or be carried during erosion.

What is fertilizer

(and/or animal manure?)

Large mass of frozen water that moves

slowly over earth’s surface, eroding it

What is a glacier?

Bare fields, housing projects,

construction sites, or cities as initial sites

for sediments

What are non point sources?

The major agent for shaping much of earth’s surface

What is running water?

Determined by the stream’s slope and

discharge

What is a stream’s speed?

For a stream, may vary from a few centimeters to

several kilometers

What is the width of

the stream?

Type of load made up of ions from

chemical weathering that have dissolved

in water

What is dissolved load?

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”

What is bed load?

The name of the watershed that

provides water for the Beaver Water

District

What is Beaver Lake

Watershed?

General term for streams that flow

into the White River

What are tributaries?

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

body

What is a watershed?

Counties for whose residents, Beaver

Water District is the primary water

source

What are Benton and Washington Counties?

The year that Beaver Dam was completed (choices: 1942, 1954,

1966, 1978)

What is 1966?

The primary source of drinking water for

cities in Northwest Arkansas.

What is Beaver Lake? (Beaver Water

District)

Land that drains water to a common

area.

What is a watershed?

Cloudiness in water.

What is turbidity?

The primary pollutant threatening the water quality in

the West Fork of the White River.

What is sediment?

The name of the river that fills Beaver Lake.

What is White River?

Write your final challenge wager.

Where the water that drains off your

street eventually goes.

What are rivers,

streams, and lakes?