This term is used when freshwater and saltwater miz together.
What is brackish water?
100
This term refers to the height of a place above sea level.
What is elevation?
100
This measures the current conditions of the atmosphere:temperature, precipitation, and wind.
What is weather?
100
Swamps, marshes, and any other areas that have a natural supply of water and are covered or soaked with water at least aprt of the year.
What is a wetland?
200
This explains where a place is in relation to another place or places.
What is Relitave Location?
200
This waterway is most connected with Louisiana.
What is a bayou?
200
This is a seasonally flooded forest.
What is a swamp?
200
The names of the two hurricanes that hit Louisiana in 2005.
What is Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita?
200
When the soil along the coast sinks slowly.
What is subsidence?
300
Louisiana's longest boundary.
What is 33 degrees north latitude?
300
This is the largest natural lake in Louisiana.
What is Lake Pontchartrain?
300
The place where the river meets the sea.
What is an estuary?
300
The average weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
300
The islands off the coast that protect the wetlands, estuaries, and bays from the direct impact of ocean waves.
What is the Barrier Islands?
400
These two states lie further suouth than Louisiana.
What is Florida and Texas?
400
This Louisiana River has the second largest drainage area.
What is the Red River?
400
A wet treeless prarie covered with water and grasses.
What is a marsh?
400
Dangerous, funnel-shaped windstorms.
What is a tornadoe?
400
The purpose of this control structure is to prevent the Mississippi River from changing course and heading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Atchafalaya River.
What is the Old River Control Structure?
500
This river shapes the upper boundary between Louisiana and Mississippi.
What is the Mississippi River?
500
Most of the water in the Atchafalaya River comes from this river.
What is the Red River?
500
Layers of rock that have folded upward, rising above the surface.
What is a salt dome?
500
When the wind speed of a storm reaches 74 miles/hour.