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100
The dam where water pushes up against it, strengthening its structure, and it is in a curved position.
What is a Arch Dam?
100
A kind of power produced by the current of the water turning a wheel.
What is hydroelectric power?
100
The type of energy that Dams produce.
What is hydroelectric energy?
100
This material is found the bottom of a body of water created by a dam.
What is sediment?
100
This was created to develop dams along the Tennessee River.
What is The Tennessee Valley Authority?
200
A dam that uses sticks and mud to create ponds, wetlands, and complex ecological systems
What is a Beaver Dam?
200
A dam built by castore (an animal) to provide ponds, wetlands, lakes as a form of protection as predators.
What is the purpose beaver dam?
200
Ways dams help with water storage.
What is reservoirs?
200
These bugs are born and created through the creation of large dams and can spread many of the deadly diseases we know today.
What are mosquitos?
200
This dam was named after the 31st President.
What is The Hoover Dam?
300
A dam most commonly used for irrigation since 5000 BC. Consist of canals and/or multiple tunnels.
What is an Earthen Dam?
300
A structure used to provide the controlled release of flows from a dam or levee into a downstream.
What is a Spillway?
300
Ways dams help control debris.
What is preventing hazardous and detrimental sediment and material?
300
It takes about this many years on average to build a dam.
What is 5-7 years?
300
This dam is also known as the Franklin River Dam
What is The Gordon Dam?
400
Known as a hollow dam. It is heavy, and pushes the dam into the ground.
What is a Buttress dam?
400
When locks and levees are used to rise or lower the level of the water for ships to pass.
What is the way to navigate a dam?
400
Recreational activities that dams provide.
What is camping,boating,fishing,etc?
400
This type of animal’s population is affected due to the building of a dam.
What are fish?
400
This dam is built on the Murray River in Australia.
What is The Hume Dam?
500
Made of thick, triangular shaped walls of concrete or masonry.
What is a Gravity Dam?
500
A test that measures a sample of water from the nearest reservoir of water seepage supply.
What is a water quality test?
500
The way dams reduce the usage of fossil fuels.
What is producing energy?
500
This is reduced when water is held in a reservoir for an extended period.
What is dissolved oxygen?
500
This dam is located in the Yangtze River in China.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?