Watershed
History/ Culture
Fish
WSP Secrets
Water
100
A land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean.
Answer: What is a Watershed? ♥
100
Joke: Why are fish so easy to weigh?
Answer: Because they have their own scales!
100
The 2 most common types of Jawless fish are Hagfish and these.
Answer: What is Lampreys?
100
The WSP staff member who did competitive Irish step dancing for 17 years.
Answer: Who is Alex?
100
A molecule formed from one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms.
Answer: What is Water?
200
One of the main sources of human pollution in waterways.
Answer: What is non-point pollution?
(Nonpoint source pollution or "runoff" includes many small sources, like septic tanks, cars, trucks, and boats, plus larger sources, such as farms, ranches, and forest areas.)
200
The amount of years fish have been on earth.
Answer: What is approximately 450 million years?
200
The name of this fish.
Answer: What is Coho Salmon?
200
The WSP staff member who ran a glass-blowing studio.
Answer: Who is Zia?
200
This river is the site of the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.
Answer: What is the Klamath River?
300
The Amazon basin at about 7 million square kilometers
Answer: What is the largest watershed on Earth today?
300
Dory in finding nemo is this kind of fish.
Answer: What is a Blue Tang?
300
An acronm for a device used to track fish.
Answer: What is a Passive Integrated Transponder?
300
The WSP staff member whose spirit animal is a three-toed sloth.
Answer: Who is Trista Dowdy?
300
The largest river in California.
Answer: What is the Sacramento River?
(31 percent of the state's surface water runoff)
400
The area below the water table.
Answer: What is the Saturated Zone?
400
The largest fish species.
Answer: What is Whale Shark?
400
Salmon use these two things to help navigate back to their birthplace with precision.
Answer: What is Earth's magnetic field and excellent smell?
400
The founder of WSP has a _____ stand called Floodplain Produce.
Answer: What is Blackberry Pop (popsicles)?
400
The number of gallons the average American uses in water a year.
Answer: What is on average 100,000 gallons during a year? (According to the department of public health)
Bonus for 200: When salmonids spawn they dig a nest for their eggs to incubate in.
500
A measure of the degree of meandering within a river, defined as the ratio of stream length to valley length. Ranging from about 1 to much more than 1.5
Answer: What is sinuosity?
500
Volunteer events used to be called this before they were called WAVEs.
Answer: What is WAP - Watershed Awareness Project, and/or ISP - Individual Service Project?
500
Spawning only once before death (most salmonoids) vs spawning multiple years in a row (steelhead and trout)
Answer: What is the difference between semelparity and iteroparity?
500
The Corpsmember who was in an air instrumental cat themed Beatles cover band called Cat Litter.
Answer: Who is Saul?
500
A measure of the quality of being cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter.
Answer: What is turbidity?