Louisiana History People and the Environment chapter 1

The main element in nature that Louisianians had to intract with and main feature that figures in shaping Louisiana's history

• Poverty Point

• Mississippi River

• Lake Pontchartrain

• The Sabine River

Human interaction with the Mississippi River has centered around what two issues

• Maintaining the River's course

• Using River to run factories

• Harnessing the river's energy

• Controlling flooding

True or false: The Mississippi River flooded in the spring as part of its yearly cycle for thousands of years

• True

• False

Two ways man has tried to control the Mississippi River

• Built Levees to stop flooding

• Built Hydroelectric Dams

• Built spillways to drain it

• Created Oxbow Lakes

Organization created to coordinate efforts to control flooding along the Mississippi's course

• The Levee Board

• The School Board

• The Mississippi River Commission

• The Corps of Engineers

Great flood of the Mississippi River that flooded hundreds of miles on either side of the river and left thousands homeless.

• 2006

• 1927

• 1865

• 1700

In the great flood of 1927 how long did it take for flood waters to recede?

• a week

• 2 months

• 5 months

• a year

In reaction to the flood of 1927, the Corps of Engineers built the old river Control structure partly to stop the Mississippi from changing it's course and traveling to the Gulf of Mexico through what waterway?

• The Red River

• The Pearl River

• The Sabine River

• The Atchafalaya River

What is the purpose of the Bonnet Carrie Spillway?

• When dangerously high floods Threaten New Orleans, it is opened to let water from the Mississippi drain into Lake Pontchartrain

• It empties the Amite River into Lake Pontchartrain to stop Flooding

• It stops the Mississippi River from Changing its course

• IT protects the Atchafalaya from the flood waters of the Mississippi

The most negative outcome of the levee system is

• Flooding still occurs regularly

• Large numbers of people can no longer depend on the Mississippi for transportation

• The Mississippi River has stopped flowing

• Coastal Erosion as a result sediment run off into the Gulf of Mexico instead of being deposited in the Louisiana Marshes along the coast