Wetlands
Seeing lines on trees indicates this is present.
What is water?
This river caught on fire in 1969.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
At its tallest the Asarco smokestack stood at this height.
What is 571 ft?
This River Delta flows into the Gulf of Mexico at Plaquemins Parish.
What s the Mississippi River Delta?
This river is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest.
What is the Columbia River?
Iron turns this color in soil saturated by water.
What is red?
This river no longer flows to the ocean.
What is the Colorado River?
These are the pollutants associated with the plume.
What are sulfur dioxide, arsenic and lead? (could also accept cadmium)
This is the largest estuary in the United States.
Tacoma's water travels this far to reach customers.
What is 30 miles?
The name for a plant that depends on wetland conditions
What is Obligate? Or what is an Obligate Wetland Plant?
This large river flows into the Mississippi River in St Louis.
What is the Missouri River?
The Asarco Smelter plant was closed in this year.
What was 1986?
This small river originates in Western Kitsap County and flows into the Hood Canal.
What is the Tahuya River? (Other answers are possible)
Washington State University researchers are studying dieback on this species.
What is western redcedar?
These invertebrates can dry out completely during drought without dying.
What are fairy shrimp?
This river flows along the border between the US and Mexico.
What is the Rio Grande?
The smokestack was demolished in this year.
What was 1993?
Natural erosion moves this from upstream areas to estuaries.
What is sediment?
The Tacoma Pierce Health Department conducts quick soil tests using this tool.
What is an XRF?
A wetland delineation requires looking at these three things.
What are soil, hydrology (presence of water), and plants?
This river runs through the Nation’s Capitol.
What is the Potomac River? (Could also accept the Anacostia River)
The Asarco Smelter plume spread this far.
What is 1,000 square miles?
What is fish habitat? (Can accept woody debris, insect habitat, and available nutrients)
The Columbia River is home to these four kinds of salmon.
What are chinook, coho, steelhead, and sockeye?