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Water that leaves wetlands is dirtier than the water that flows into it. True or False?
False
One-third of the world's endangered species depend on wetlands for survival. True or False?
True
Contaminants that alter wetlands can come from industry, parking lots, houses, and agriculture. True or False?
True
Wetlands help people by:
Providing us with food, tanins, dyes, wood, flood control, pollution clean-up, etc.
How do wetlands help with flood control?
Soak up excess water and slow the water
Eutrophication results from which pollutant type?
nutrients
When writing numbers on a stream order diagram, two 3's equal:
4
How many major watersheds are there in PA?
6
Which PA watershed is a part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed?
Susquehanna
Some medicines are derived from plants only found in wetlands. True or False?
True
Define watershed.
All the land that drains into one body of water.
Define riparian buffer.
area of vegetation bordering streams or rivers
Screening is a step in which process - water treatment or sewage treatment?
sewage
Name the water treatment step that uses chemicals that cause clumps to form.
Coagulation and flocculation
Name the watershed that is directly west of the Susquehanna watershed.
Ohio
Name the watershed that is directly east of the Susquehanna watershed.
Delaware
