Blinded by Science
This organism benefits from high levels of nitrates in the water
What is algae?
Missouri has had this many directors since it began.
What is 11?
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This occurs as a result of higher water temperatures
What is low dissolved oxygen?
This organization is responsible for developing water quality standards
What is the EPA?
Missouri is not only known as the Show-Me State, but also as this.
What is the Cave State?
Fun Fact: MO contains over 6,300 recorded caves and more are discovered every year, more than any other state in the union.
The cloudiness of water when particles are suspended in the water
What is turbidity?
DNR was created in this year.
What is 1974, the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974?
This process is characterized by warmer water, high turbidity, decreased dissolved oxygen and increased nutrients.
What is eutrophication?
The primary federal law in the US governing water pollution
What is the Clean Water Act?
Missouri shares a border with these states.
What are Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky?
When you see clouds forming in the sky, the water above you is forming droplets in what stage of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
Name the divisions in the Department
What are Admin. Support, Environmental Quality, Missouri Geological Survey, and Missouri State Parks?
This is used to measure turbidity.
What is a Secchi Disk?
The part of the Clean Water Act relating to nonpoint source pollution.
What is Section 319?
This port is the second largest inland port in the United States and the northernmost ice-free and lock-free port on the Mississippi River.
What is the Port of St. Louis?
Fun Fact: Port of St. Louis is the 17th largest US port overall, located within 500 miles of one-third of the entire US population, and served by 6 Class 1 railroads, 7 interstates, and 2 international airports.
In ecology, a _______ is an assemblage or associations of populations of two or more different species occupying the same geographical area.
What is a community?
Name the three female Department Directors.
Who are Carolyn Ashford, Sara Parker Pauley, and Carol Comer?
Not parts per million but _________is a measurement in Missouri's water quality standards.
What is milligrams per liter?
What Clean Water Act section requires TMDLs for water quality limited segments
What is Section 303d?
Prior to European settlement, approximately 15 million acres of this landscape covered Missouri. Today, less than one half of 1 percent of the original landscape remains.
What is prairie?
_________ refers to the amount of oxygen that would be consumed if all organic matter in one liter of water were oxidized by bacteria.
What is biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)?
Name a well-known American Carol Comer worked for.
Who is Vice-President Mike Pence?
A place that uses chemicals to clean water is referred to as this.
What is a wastewater (sewage) treatment plant?
What Missouri rule regulated effluent limits
10 CSR 20-7.015
Based on July 2019 US Department pf Energy data, only 1.35% of Missouri's Net Electricity comes from this source.
What is hydroelectric?