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A river near Lake Erie caught fire in June of this year.
What is 1969?
100
This river caught fire in part due to traces of industrial pollutants that sat on its surface.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
100
This is Earth's 11th largest lake by surface area, and the smallest Great Lake by water volume.
What is Lake Erie?
100
This type of Lake Erie degradation can still be seen all the way from space.
What are algal blooms?
100

Treatment plants help remove this naturally-occurring nutrient from waste.

What is phosphorous? (Also acceptable: What is nitrogen?)

200
Phosphorus currently contributes significantly to this Lake Erie environmental problem.
What are algal blooms?
200

This federal law governs (applies to) the regulation of sewage.

What is the Clean Water Act?

200
This river is a Lake Erie tributary.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
200
In 1972, Congress set a goal that the United States would stop discharging pollution into waterways by this year.
What is 1985?
200

This tiny substance in facial scrubs is designed to go down the drain and it evades our wastewater treatment plant filters.

What are microbeads?

300
Today, this is a major pollutant in Lake Erie.
What is phosphorous *OR* plastic?
300
Phosphorous is a major component (part) of this specific type of runoff.
What is agricultural runoff?
300

Canada and the United States signed this important water treaty in 1972. (NOTE: You must say the exact name.)

What is the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement?

300

This is the shallowest of the Great Lakes, which makes it vulnerable to fluctuating water levels.

What is Lake Erie?

300

Invasive species affecting Lake Erie today include this fast-growing, aggressive, jumping fish.

What is the Asian carp?

400
Mayor Carl Stokes of this major Midwestern city used the 1969 fire to shine a spotlight on industrial pollution.
What is Cleveland, Ohio?
400

The Clean Water Act of 1972 sought to make water usable for these THREE important purposes. (NOTE: You must say ALL THREE.)

What are fishing, swimming, and drinking?

400
FILL IN THE BLANK: The water provided by Lake Erie for waterborne commerce, navigation, manufacturing, and power production has led to intensive __________ development along its shore.
What is "industrial"?
400
Although the Clean Water Act did not limit agricultural runoff, it did limit _______ dumping.
What is "industrial"?
400

Federal and state agencies across America need to work together to ensure that phosphorous is not dumped beyond _______ levels.

What is "baseline"?

500
An oil slick under this type of structure caused the Cuyahoga River to catch fire.
What is a railroad trestle? (Note: "What is a bridge?" is also acceptable.)
500
The Clean Water Act does NOT apply to this type of runoff.
What is agricultural runoff?
500
This type of phosphorous is way more problematic algal-blooms-wise than granular phosphorous.
What is dissolved phosphorous?
500
This male singer-songwriter wrote "Burn On" after the most attention-getting Cuyahoga River fire occurred.
Who is Randy Newman?
500

Zebra and quagga mussels cannot filter this type of toxic algae that plagues Lake Erie.

What is blue-green algae?