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?

Question: Question: WaterWater- 3 pts- 3 pts

Snow, sleet and rain are forms of this.

Answer: Answer: WaterWater- 3 pts- 3 pts

What is precipitation?

Question: Question: WaterWater- 4 pts- 4 pts

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

Answer: Answer: WaterWater- 4 pts- 4 pts

What is the Vermilion River?

Question: Question: WaterWater- 5 pts- 5 pts

Water is made up of these two elements.

Answer: Answer: WaterWater- 5 pts- 5 pts

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?

Question: Question: Soil Soil - 3 pts- 3 pts

Wearing down of soil by wind, water or ice.

Picture represents a way to slow down

erosion.

Answer: Answer: Soil Soil - 3 pts- 3 pts

What is erosion?

Question: Question: Soil Soil - 4 pts- 4 pts

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

Answer: Answer: Soil Soil - 4 pts- 4 pts

What is sediment?

Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico

Question: Question: Soil Soil - 5 pts- 5 pts

Air, water, minerals and this make up soil.

Answer: Answer: Soil Soil - 5 pts- 5 pts

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.

Answer: Answer: Air Air - 3 pts- 3 pts

What is smoking?

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

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

Answer: Answer: Air Air - 4 pts- 4 pts

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.

Answer: Answer: Air Air - 5 pts- 5 pts

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.

Answer: Answer: Wildlife Wildlife - 3 pts- 3 pts

What is migrate?

Question: Question: Wildlife Wildlife - 4 pts- 4 pts

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

Answer: Answer: Wildlife Wildlife - 4 pts- 4 pts

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.

Question: Question: Wildlife Wildlife - 5 pts- 5 pts

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

Answer: Answer: Wildlife Wildlife - 5 pts- 5 pts

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?

Question:Question: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 3 pts- 3 pts

Aluminum, glass, plastic and motor oil

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

What can be recycled?

Question:Question: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 4 pts- 4 pts

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

Answer:Answer: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 4 pts- 4 pts

What is composting?

Question:Question: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 5 pts- 5 pts

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

filter pollutants.

Answer:Answer: Pollution Solutions Pollution Solutions - 5 pts- 5 pts

What is a riparian buffer?