Flooding Review Game

1. Total load is everything the river is carrying, including dissolved particulates.

• True

• False

2. Flooding is essentially water overflowing where it normally flows.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

3. A secondary effect of a flood is polluted waterways.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

4. Developing nations see more damage from flooding because of poor land use and bad construction.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

5. Urbanization has NOT led to increased flooding.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

6. A recurrence interval is the time in-between two floods of equal magnitude.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

7. Dams slow water flow down.

• True

• False

8. Headwater is at the __ of the stream.

• Bottom

• Middle

• Top

9. The large materials (rocks, etc) that are carried by a stream are called…

• Total Load

• Bed Load

• Dissolved Load

10. The invisible materials carried in a stream are called….

• Total Load

• Bed Load

• Dissolved Load

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4