What is Spring! When vernal pools become most active.
100
What is a drought?
What is An extended period of dry weather.
100
What percentage of the world's water is salty and undrinkable?
What is 97%. (This leaves 3% for freshwater, but 2% is locked in glaciers and 0.7% is in groundwater.)
200
How many gallons of water falls on Maine every year?
What is about 24 trillion! (About 45 inches)
200
What is Maine's deepest lake?
What is Sebago Lake! It is more than 300 ft deep!
200
What is the name of an artificial lake to collect and store water?
What is Reservoir.
200
When settlers first came to Maine they realized it was the perfect place for boatbuilding. Name one reason why.
What is The rivers were deep, the rivers had banks which were perfectly pitched to build and launch boats, and initially there was a tremendous source of lumber upriver that could be felled and floated down to the boatyards.
200
How much water does the average person in the US consumer per day?
What is between 80 - 100 gallons per day!
300
What percent of Maine is classified as wetland?
What is 25%
300
What is Maine's oldest lighthouse?
What is Portland Head Light, 1791.
300
Both the Adroscoggin and Saco Rivers begin their journey in which state?
What is New Hampshire
300
If you are a limnologist, what do you study?
What is lakes.
300
What are the three different states of water?
What is solid, liquid, and gas.
400
How many lakes are in Maine?
What is about 6000?
400
What are three of the four longest rivers in Maine?
What is St. John, Penobscot, Androscoggin, and Kennebec.
400
How many atoms make up a molecule of water?
What is Three atoms.
400
Name one thing that can cause long term apparent sea level rise.
What is sinking land, melting ice caps, thermal expansion of ocean water as it heats up.
(storm surges, tsunamis, tidal effects are all short term)
400
What is the longest river in the world?
What is the Nile (4132 miles, the Amazon comes in 2nd at 4000 miles)
500
How many miles of rivers and streams are in Maine?
What is more than 31,000
500
What bay is the largest freshwater tidal bay in Maine?
What is Merrymeeting Bay (Kennebec and Androscoggin Rivers)
500
Name a major type of pollution affecting Maine's filter feeders (such as clams or mussels).
What is Bacteria, viruses, petroleum products, and heavy metals.
500
What is the estimated percentage of people globally without access to a safe water supply and modern sanitation facilities?
What is 33%
500
What is the longest river in the United States?
What is the Missouri River. At around 2,340 miles (3,770 km) in length it is slightly longer than the Mississippi River (2,320 miles).