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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TopographicMaps
Water Erosion
Changes WatershedsBeaverWater
District Quiz
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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?