This is where the water that falls on the land surface goes if you live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
100
Virginia's soil is important because without these, we wouldn't have as much to eat.
What are crops?
100
The Atlantic Ocean, Virginia's forests, and Virginia's lakes and rivers all provide ________________ for animals. These can change over time.
What are habitats?
100
This is a metamorphic rock used in energy production ( and it's a fossil fuel!)
What is coal?
100
Coal is a (renewable or nonrenewable) resource.
What is nonrenewable?
200
These are the names of 3 of Virginia's major rivers.
What are James, York, Rappahanock, and Potomac? (3 out of 4)
200
Trees that are used to produce furniture, houses, and paper grow in the ____________.
What is the soil?
200
This is where the majority of large, old trees in Virginia's forests, except in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, are ________________.
What is gone?
200
This is a sedimentary rock used in agriculture and industry.
What is limestone?
200
Moving water can flow through a dam, turn turbines, and create energy. This energy is called_______________.
What is hydroelectric power?
300
The Chesapeake Bay watershed covers about ____________ of Virginia's land surface.
What is 1/2?
300
When the soil is not taken care of, a single storm can wash away soil that took _____________years to build up.
What is 500?
300
The animals people hunt are called ___________ ________. Name three.
What is game species: deer, squirrel, wild turkey, bass, and trout.
300
Silver, copper, iron,kyanite, and vermiculite are all ____________________ resources.
What is mineral?
300
This is Virginia's state tree and produces the state flower
What is the dogwood?
400
These are four examples of Virginia's water resources.
What are rivers, lakes, bays, reservoirs, and the Atlantic Ocean? (all 5 are listed, contestant needs 4 out of the 5)
400
Trees can be planted, which makes them a special kind of natural resource. This is called a ____________________resource.
What is renewable?
400
Evergreen forests (like pines) grow mostly in the __________region, while hardwood forests (like oak,hickory and sugar maple) grow in the __________ and __________ regions.
What is Tidewater, Mountain and Piedmont?
400
This is the difference between a rock and a mineral.
What is that minerals are a natural substance (1) and rocks are mixtures of minerals.
400
This is the state soil of Virginia, because it is made up of sediment from all over the state of Virginia.
What is Pamunkey soil?
500
The river systems of Southwestern VA flow into the ___________________________________watershed.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
500
Name 5 things that can be produced from trees.
What are paper, toothpicks, baseball bats, crates, boats, furniture, and houses.
500
These two types of gas are used in energy production.
What are natural gas and methane?
500
This is the result of farmers using lots of chemical fertilizers, industries dumping dangerous chemicals, and powerful storms that wash all kinds of things into rivers, lakes, streams, and bays.