Transcript Wetland Jeopardy

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Wetland
Vegetation
Zones
Wetland
Threats
Wetland
Functions
Wetland
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How many types of wetlands there
are.
What is four?
A type of wetland that holds water
all year and only goes dry after many
years of drought.
What is a permanent wetland?
A type of wetland that usually
contains water snowmelt to mid-July
and may be used for pasture or hay
land.
What is a seasonal wetland?
A type of wetland that holds water all
year except in very dry years.
What is a semi-permanent wetland?
Type of wetland made of a shallow
depression that holds water from
snowmelt until early June (the least
amount of time).
What is a temporary wetland?
The outermost vegetation zone of a
wetland. It contains fine-textured
grasses, sedges and rushes.
What is a wet meadow?
The vegetation zone found in the
central area of a semi-permanent
wetland. It contains fully submerged
aquatic vegetation.
What is a deep marsh?
The vegetation zone found in the
central area of a seasonal wetland and
between the two other zones of a semipermanent wetland.
What is the shallow marsh?
The vegetation zone, found only in a
permanent wetland which doesn’t
contain vegetation.
What is the central deep water?
The vegetation zone found in a semipermanent and a permanent wetland
but not in a seasonal wetland.
What is a deep marsh?
Non-native plants or animals that have
been introduce to a wetland and are
harmful to it like curly leaf pondweed,
purple loosestrife, and the zebra
mussel.
What are aquatic nuisance species?
The process where soil erosion by
runoff carries soil particles to
wetlands, depositing it, and causing
soil buildup which may lead to shallow
wetlands and habitat destruction.
What is sedimentation?
The process of adding nutrients to
wetlands through runoff from
fertilizers, manure, and lawns which
causes algae blooms which can be
harmful to a wetland.
What is nutrification?
The number of acres of North Dakota
wetlands that have been drained in the
last century. (HINT – ND originally
had 5 million aces of wetlands.)
What is 2.5 million acres?
The biggest threat to North Dakota
wetlands.
What is drainage?
The number of functions of wetlands.
What is five?
The function of wetlands pertaining to
hunting, bird watching, and fishing.
What is public use?
A function of wetlands in which they
remove pollutants from water.
What is improving water quality?
The function of wetlands in which water
seeps into the ground to refill aquifers.
What is recharging groundwater?
The function of wetlands in which they
store water from snow melt and after
heavy rains.
What is natural flood control?
These formed most of the wetlands in
North Dakota (the last one entered ND
from Canada 40,000 years ago).
What are glaciers?
The three common characteristics of
wetlands are water, plants that can live
in water, and hydric soil which was
formed without the presence of this gas.
What is oxygen?
North Dakota is part of the Prairie
Pothole Region which covers 30,000
square miles of this many US states
and Canadian provinces.
What is eight?
North Dakota has three major natural
regions which include the Red River
Valley, the Drift Prairie, and the
Missouri Plateau. Of these, this one
contains the largest number of
wetlands and the most temporary and
seasonal wetlands.
What is the Drift Prairie?
The fourth horizon of soil also called
subsoil.
What is the B horizon?
Make your wager
A feature in soil where iron that was
reduced by being in an anaerobic
environment becomes oxidized when
soil dries out and becomes aerobic.
What is Redoximorphic?