Wetlands
Rivers
Asarco
Estuaries
Pacific Northwest
100

Seeing lines on trees indicates this is present.

What is water?

100

This river caught on fire in 1969.

What is the Cuyahoga River?

100

At its tallest the Asarco smokestack stood at this height.

What is 571 ft?

100

This River Delta flows into the Gulf of Mexico at Plaquemins Parish.

What s the Mississippi River Delta?

100

This river is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest.

What is the Columbia River?

200

Iron turns this color in soil saturated by water.

What is red?

200

This river no longer flows to the ocean.

What is the Colorado River?

200

These are the pollutants associated with the plume.

What are sulfur dioxide, arsenic and lead? (could also accept cadmium)

200

This is the largest estuary in the United States.

What is the Chesapeake Bay?
200

Tacoma's water travels this far to reach customers.

What is 30 miles?

300

The name for a plant that depends on wetland conditions

What is Obligate? Or what is an Obligate Wetland Plant?

300

This large river flows into the Mississippi River in St Louis.

What is the Missouri River?

300

The Asarco Smelter plant was closed in this year.

What was 1986?

300

This small river originates in Western Kitsap County and flows into the Hood Canal.

What is the Tahuya River? (Other answers are possible)

300

Washington State University researchers are studying dieback on this species.

What is western redcedar?

400

These invertebrates can dry out completely during drought without dying.

What are fairy shrimp?

400

This river flows along the border between the US and Mexico.

What is the Rio Grande?

400

The smokestack was demolished in this year.

What was 1993?

400

Natural erosion moves this from upstream areas to estuaries.

What is sediment?

400

The Tacoma Pierce Health Department conducts quick soil tests using this tool.

What is an XRF?

500

A wetland delineation requires looking at these three things. 

What are soil, hydrology (presence of water), and plants?

500

This river runs through the Nation’s Capitol.

What is the Potomac River? (Could also accept the Anacostia River)

500

The Asarco Smelter plume spread this far.

What is 1,000 square miles?

500
Armoring shoreline areas reduces this.

What is fish habitat? (Can accept woody debris, insect habitat, and available nutrients)

500

The Columbia River is home to these four kinds of salmon.

What are chinook, coho, steelhead, and sockeye?

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