Conservation Jeopardy Vermilion Soil and Water Conservation District

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Question: Question: WaterWater- 1 pt- 1 pt

Americans use more than 300 billion gallons of this a day.

Answer: Answer: WaterWater- 1 pt- 1 pt

What is Water

Question: Question: WaterWater- 2 pts- 2 pts

Inside the home, an average of

50 gallons of water is used for

these.

Answer: Answer: WaterWater- 2 pts- 2 pts

What is a shower?


Snow, sleet and rain are forms of this.


What is precipitation?


This river flows through Lafayette and Vermilion Parish and is in the Vermilion Teche watershed.


What is the Vermilion River?


Water is made up of these two elements.


What are hydrogen and oxygen?

Hydrogen + Oxygen = Water

H2 + O2 = H2O

Question:Question: Soil Soil - 1 pt- 1 pt

It takes 100 to 500 years to make one inch of this.

Answer: Answer: Soil Soil - 1 pt- 1 pt

What is soil?

Question: Question: Soil Soil - 2 pts- 2 pts

The land that water flows across or under on its way to a river, stream or lake.

Answer: Answer: Soil Soil - 2 pts- 2 pts

What is a watershed?


Wearing down of soil by wind, water or ice.

Picture represents a way to slow down

erosion.


What is erosion?


Bits of runoff soil that form a pollutant in many water bodies.


What is sediment?

Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico


Air, water, minerals and this make up soil.


What is organic mater?

Question: Question: Air Air - 1 pt- 1 pt

The gaseous envelope that surrounds the earth.

Answer: Answer: Air Air - 1 pt- 1 pt

What is the atmosphere?

Question: Question: Air Air - 2 pts- 2 pts

Exhaust from this source is a major cause of air pollution.

Answer: Answer: Air Air - 2 pts- 2 pts

What are motor vehicles?

Question: Question: Air Air - 3 pts- 3 pts

Something that other people do that can damage your lungs.


What is smoking?

Question: Question: ““Air Air - 4 pts- 4 pts

Acid rain is caused when this is burned to make electricity.


What is coal?

Question: Question: Air - Air - 5 pts5 pts

There is a lot of this in the air but it takes lightening or special plants to make this available as a nutrient.


What is nitrogen?

Colorless nitrogen gas makes up 78% of the atmosphere, but here we see it in liquid form at -196DegreeC. It is boiling off, creating a visible vapor--not of steam, but of water condensed from the surrounding air.

Question: Question: Wildlife - 1 ptWildlife - 1 pt

An animal that lives by capturing other animals for food.

Answer: Answer: Wildlife Wildlife - 1 pt- 1 pt

What is a predator?

Question: Question: Wildlife Wildlife - 2 pts- 2 pts

The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows.

Answer: Answer: Wildlife Wildlife - 2 pts- 2 pts

What is a habitat?

Question: Question: Wildlife Wildlife – 3 pts– 3 pts

Some traveling fish, birds or butterflies do this.


What is migrate?


When an animal or plant is in danger of becoming extinct, it becomes one of these.


What is endangered?

Red Wolf: (Population: About 100. Status: Endangered Species.

The red wolf was declared extinct in the wild in 1980 after the last 17 animals were captured on the Gulf

Coast of Texas.


These areas of slow drainage are good for water quality and wildlife habitat.


What is a riparian buffer zone?

Question:Question: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 1 pt- 1 pt

Wise use of our natural resources.

Answer:Answer: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 1 pt- 1 pt

What is conservation?

Question:Question: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 2 pts- 2 pts

Planting one of these is like a natural air

conditioner, helping to clean and cool the air.

Answer:Answer: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 2 pts- 2 pts

What is a tree?


Aluminum, glass, plastic and motor oil

Answer:Answer:Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 3 pts- 3 pts

What can be recycled?


Start a pile of grass clippings, leaves and vegetable waste and you will be doing this.


What is composting?


A protective zone of trees and vegetation allowed to grow along water banks to

filter pollutants.


What is a riparian buffer?

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