Legal Water Rights
Beaver Furs
Mississippi Basin Model
Natural History
How Well Did You Listen?
100
These land plots are perpendicular to this river because of this doctrine.
Riparian Doctrine
100
In 1763, this city used the Mississippi River to become a large fur-trading capital.
St. Louis
100
These are the creators of the Mississippi Basin Model.
Army Corps of Engineers
100
This animal acted in southern swamps as the beavers do in their wetlands.
Alligators
100
A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.
Aquifer
200
The Prior Appropriation Doctrine gave the ability for this to be constructed in California.
Los Angeles Aqueduct
200
The North American beaver was found everywhere except for Florida and this state.
Lousiana
200
This park is where the Mississippi Basin Model resides.
Butts Park, Clinton, Mississippi
200
These large bodies of water were connected by the Erie Canal.
The Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean
200
Halina had a conversation about water rights on this type of transportation.
A plane.
300
This is the line that divides the United States by its rainfall patterns, forest density, and soil distribution.
The 100th Meridian
300
This many North American beavers were estimated to have lived in North America before early settlers came to the US.
200 million
300
The acreage of the Mississippi Basin Model.
200 acres
300
Between 1800 and 1880, this much of Ohio's forest was cleared.
75%
300
Halina was traveling between these two cities in her story.
Dallas and New Orleans
400
In this state, you can own land but not the groundwater/minerals below it.
Texas
400
Because of early settlers, beavers were almost extinct in this area of the US.
The east coast
400
These people helped construct the Mississippi Basin Model during WWII.
Italian and German POWs
400
This was a major downfall of water transportation before waterway alterations.
Lack of direct access to desired locations.
400
This was the stranger's (Halina talked to about the water rights) line of work.
Setting up oil rigs
500
The Riparian Doctrine is used the most in this part of the US.
Eastern US
500
This fraction of the total land area in the US was influenced by beavers.
One tenth
500
The Mississippi Basin Models include these Mississippi River tributaries.
Tennesse, Arkansas, and Missouri Rivers
500
In the late 1800s/early 1900s, this industry had a significant impact on the shape of waterways in the US.
The button industry
500
This animal's burrows facilitate erosion in swamps.
Nutria