Watersheds 1
The three parts of a watershed.
What are headwaters, tributaries, and outflows?
Purpose of the headwaters
Shed precipitation into tributaries.
A black radical organization formed in Oakland in 1966 that fought for liberation through mutual aid, political organizing, and arming for self-defense.
We carry tears in our eyes: good-bye father, good-bye mother
We carry soil in small bags: may home never fade in our hearts
We carry names, stories, memories of our villages, fields, boats
What is repetition?
to argue or talk abut something in too much detail or length
What is belabor?
The functions of a tributary.
What are transport, regulate, and protect?
The headwaters of the San Francisco Bay watershed.
What are the Sierra Nevada and Tehachapi mountains, coastal ranges.
A movement for Native Peoples of all tribes to fight problems in present-day living conditions. Founded in Minneapolis in 1968.
What is the American Indian Movement?
light replaces absence,
like a receding tide
revealing oysters
What is a simile?
confusing, disorganized (esp. thinking)
What is muddled?
The four parts of the outflow.
What are sloughs, marshes, mudflats and estuaries?
Functions of a marsh.
What are absorb, filter, and provide?
Two different groups of Black Indians that formed new societies to resist colonization and slavery.
What are the seminoles and garifuna?
We're all spent rivers,
one time or another,
pooling where we can
What is a metaphor?
offering nothing stimulating or challenging, empty-headed
What is vapid?
3 environmental concerns in the Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta.
Subsidence, erosion, salinity intrusion, habitat destruction, pollution, sea water rise.
Functions of an estuary.
What are release and circulate?
A direct action taken by the American Indian Movement to protest corruption on the Pine Ridge reservation, and which succeeded in bringing national attention to the plight of indigenous peoples in the present-day. Took place in 1973.
What is the Siege of Wounded Knee?
Saturday brings the women
by the river with their
wash atop their heads like
curious crowns they
gracefully descend
What is alliteration?
to find (something) out for certain; make sure of
What is ascertain?
Functions of a mudflat.
What are deposit, decompose, and provide?
Functions of a slough.
What are transport, deposit, regulate, and protect?
The name of the protest which gave rise to May Day in Chicago in 1886. After a bomb was thrown into a crowd, police massacred protestors, and arrested 8 anarchist leaders. All were sentenced to death intitially, and 4 were executed.
What is the Haymarket Affair?
Who knows when the chains will be off,
and the boat, like the last glimmer of sunset,
vanish into the night?
What is simile, rhetorical question, and sensory detail?
something that proceeds in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects
What is insidious?