Streams Check-In

What is a watercourse?

• An area of water-tolerant vegetation, including marshes, swamps, bogs, and meadows.

• Any stream, creek, pond, river, bay or coastal water body.

• An area of water-tolerant vegetation, including marshes, swamps, bogs, and meadows.

What is a wetland?

• Any stream, creek, pond, river, bay or coastal water body.

• An area of water-tolerant vegetation, including marshes, swamps, bogs, and meadows.

• An area of water-tolerant vegetation, including marshes, swamps, bogs, and meadows.

What is the minimum buffer zone width on P.E.I.?

• 5 m

• 15 m

• 45 m

• 100 m

What is a watershed?

• An area of water-tolerant vegetation, including marshes, swamps, bogs, and meadows.

• A series of connected streams, rivers, and lakes that collects and drains the water from a given area of land

• Any stream, creek, pond, river, bay or coastal water body.

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 states in which materials are transported down a river

• Dissolved matter

• Suspended Solids

• Leaf litter

• Bed load

What percent of the Earth's water is freshwater?

• 70%

• 10%

• 97%

• 3%

Wetlands are a type of:

• Standing water

• Flowing water

Streams are a type of:

• Standing water

• Flowing water

Ponds and lakes are types of:

• Standing water

• Flowing water

If a 1st order stream and a 2nd order stream join together, what order of stream does it become?

• 1st order

• 2nd order

• 3rd order

• 4th order