Zones
Agencies
Floods
Hydrology & Hydraulics
Rivers & Washes of Arizona
100

Floodplain is an area that is flooded during this interval of storm

What is a 100-year storm?

100

This organization regulates and determines floodplain at a nation-wide level

What is FEMA?

100

This Arizona town, named similarly to a Florida beach town, underwent massive flooding in Fall of 2025.

What is Miami?

100

This method is represented by the equation Q = CiA

What is Rational?

100

The Black and White River form this river in eastern Arizona, which shares a similar name to Utah's Capital

What is the Salt River?

200

Kenny Loggin's sings about this zone

What is Danger?

200

FCDMC stands for this

What is the Flood Control District of Maricopa County?

200

This type of flood, sharing it's name with the a super hero, is the most common type of flood in the Desert Southwest

What is a flash flood?

200

The abbreviation TC in the Hydrology world stands for

What is the Time of Concentration?

200

This river creates the border between California and Arizona

What is the Colorado River?

300

This Italian-American dish is like an empanada, but with a pizza-twist on it

What is a Calzone?

300

This national organization regulates 404 washes

What is US Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) or Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?

300

An engineering failure caused flooding, which created this man-made lake in Southern California

What is the Salton Sea?

300

This Froude number is the breakpoint between supercritical and subcritical flow

What is 1.00?

300

San Xavier Del Bac in Tucson is named for being at the mouth of this river.

What is the Santa Cruz River?

400

Zones within the floodplain caused by riverine flooding begin with this letter

What is A?

400

FEMA stands for this

What is the Federal Emergency Management Agency?

400

320,000 gallons of this liquid flooded the streets of London in 1814

What is BEER?

400

This is the numerical coefficient used in Manning's Equation when using imperial units

1.486

400

This wash/flood control project forms a greenbelt that has multiple golf course located within in in the East Valley

What is Indian Bend Wash?

500

SFHA stands for this

What is a Special Flood Hazard Area?

500

NFIP stands for this

What is the National Flood Insurance Program?

500

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 took place in this east coast American city

What is Boston?

500

Daniel Bernoulli is the publisher of Bernoulli's equation and is from this neutral European country

What is Switzerland?

500

The Little Colorado River and the Colorado River join in this Arizona County

What is Coconino County?

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