Watersheds & River Structure
This is the place where a stream or river begins.
What is the headwaters (source)?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms of this step in the water cycle.
What is precipitation?
These bottom-dwelling stream organisms are visible without magnification.
What are benthic macroinvertebrates?
A forested wetland system.
What is a swamp?
This is the ideal snack when conducting fieldwork.
What are pretzels?
A smaller stream that flows into a larger one.
What is a tributary?
Collectively, streams and rivers are part of this path of water moving across Earth’s surface.
What is surface flow?
This organ helps fish maintain buoyancy.
What is the swim bladder?
The ability of an ecosystem to recover after disturbance.
What is resilience?
The number of days until Ellie May Silknetter's first birthday.
What is 1?
The place where two flowing bodies of water meet.
What is a confluence?
This term describes water flowing into soil to recharge groundwater.
What is infiltration?
Plants like cattails and bald cypress that require saturated soils.
What are obligate wetland plants?
A summary study combining results from multiple scientific papers.
What is a meta-analysis?
Which was *not* a song that Sam's son asked him to sing before bedtime this week?
S&M, Cotton-Eyed Joe, Who Let the Dog's Out, Somewhere Only We Know.
What is trick question? All are correct.
Flat areas next to rivers that periodically fill with water during high flow.
What is a floodplain?
The process by which plants release water vapor into the air.
What is transpiration?
Shredders, grazers, collectors, and predators fall into these ecological groupings.
What are functional feeding groups?
Material produced outside the stream, such as leaf litter.
What is allochthonous input?
Name two of Dr. Sam's top artists from Spotify Wrapped.
Who are John Mayer, Dua Lipa, Tyler Childers, Taylor Swift, and Logic?
This hierarchical term describes a specific stretch of a stream that contains multiple geomorphic units.
What is a reach?
This type of water body forms when a natural landscape is intentionally flooded behind a dam.
What is a reservoir?
This is the common name for family Plecoptera.
What is stonefly?
This SU organization (which we read about) supports ongoing student and faculty river research.
What is the Susquehanna University Freshwater Research Institute (F.R.I.)?
In the Oscar-nominated epic, 'Story of Surgeon's Photo' directed by Kagan Watkins, there were this many "that's what she said" jokes.
What is 4?