Water
Water Purity
Fun Facts
Recycling
100
This is an area of land that channels rainfall to waterways and ultimately to the ocean.
What is a Watershed?
100
Name a type of water pollution.
What is trash, debris, oil, etc.?
100
This is the Spanish word for water.
What is agua?
100
Manheim Township collects this every fall to recycle into compost.
What are leaves?
200
This is another name for rainfall.
What is Precipitation?
200
Name a type of agricultural BMP.
What is a stream crossing, manure storage or cover crop?
200
This vehicle is used to clean the Township roads.
What is a street sweeper?
200
Name 2 things you should put in your recycling bin.
Acceptable answers:
Cardboard, Aluminum Cans, Glass, Plastic Bottles
300
Name a type of water runoff.
What is urban or agricultural runoff?
300
Name a water pollutant.
What is Nitrogen, Phosphorous, or Sediment?
300
A Pacific Blue Tang fish and Clownfish are stars in this Disney movie.
What is Finding Nemo?
300
Name something a windrow turner does to the compost.
What is adds oxygen, mixes the pile, helps break it down evenly, helps speed up the process?
400
Name the watershed that involves multiple states including Lancaster County.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed?
400
This type of bug can tell you the water health of a stream.
What is Macroinvertebrates?
400
Bucher Elementary is located in this watershed.
What is the Little Conestoga Creek Watershed?
400
What do recycled leaves turn into?
Compost