1. Conservation Jeopardy Vermilion Soil and Water Conservation District

2. 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Water Soil AirWildlife Pollution Solutions

3. Question: Water- 1 pt Americans use more than 300 billion gallons of this a day.

4. Answer: Water- 1 pt What is Water

5. Question: Water- 2 pts Inside the home, an average of 50 gallons of water is used for these.

6. Answer: Water- 2 pts What is a shower?

7. Question: Water- 3 pts Snow, sleet and rain are forms of this.

8. Answer: Water- 3 pts What is precipitation?

9. Question: Water- 4 pts This river flows through Lafayette and Vermilion Parish and is in the Vermilion Teche watershed.

10. Answer: Water- 4 pts What is the Vermilion River?

11. Question: Water- 5 pts Water is made up of these two elements.

12. Answer: Water- 5 pts What are hydrogen and oxygen? Hydrogen + Oxygen = Water H2 + O2 = H2O

13. Question: Soil - 1 pt It takes 100 to 500 years to make one inch of this.

14. Answer: Soil - 1 pt What is soil?

15. Question: Soil - 2 pts The land that water flows across or under on its way to a river, stream or lake.

16. Answer: Soil - 2 pts What is a watershed?

17. Question: Soil - 3 pts Wearing down of soil by wind, water or ice.

18. Picture represents a way to slow down erosion. Answer: Soil - 3 pts What is erosion?

19. Question: Soil - 4 pts Bits of runoff soil that form a pollutant in many water bodies.

20. Answer: Soil - 4 pts What is sediment? Sediment in the Gulf of Mexico

21. Question: Soil - 5 pts Air, water, minerals and this make up soil.

22. Answer: Soil - 5 pts What is organic mater?

23. Question: Air - 1 pt The gaseous envelope that surrounds the earth.

24. Answer: Air - 1 pt What is the atmosphere?

25. Question: Air - 2 pts Exhaust from this source is a major cause of air pollution.

26. Answer: Air - 2 pts What are motor vehicles?

27. Question: Air - 3 pts Something that other people do that can damage your lungs.

28. Answer: Air - 3 pts What is smoking?

29. Question: “Air - 4 pts Acid rain is caused when this is burned to make electricity.

30. Answer: Air - 4 pts What is coal?

31. Question: Air - 5 pts There is a lot of this in the air but it takes lightening or special plants to make this available as a nutrient.

32. Answer: Air - 5 pts What is nitrogen? Colorless nitrogen gas makes up 78% of the atmosphere, but here we see it in liquid form at -196DegreeC. It is boiling off, creating a visible vapor--not of steam, but of water condensed from the surrounding air.

33. Question: Wildlife - 1 pt An animal that lives by capturing other animals for food.

34. Answer: Wildlife - 1 pt What is a predator?

35. Question: Wildlife - 2 pts The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and grows.

36. Answer: Wildlife - 2 pts What is a habitat?

37. Question: Wildlife – 3 pts Some traveling fish, birds or butterflies do this.

38. Answer: Wildlife - 3 pts What is migrate?

39. Question: Wildlife - 4 pts When an animal or plant is in danger of becoming extinct, it becomes one of these.

40. Answer: Wildlife - 4 pts What is endangered? Red Wolf: (Population: About 100. Status: Endangered Species. The red wolf was declared extinct in the wild in 1980 after the last 17 animals were captured on the Gulf Coast of Texas.

41. Question: Wildlife - 5 pts These areas of slow drainage are good for water quality and wildlife habitat.

42. Answer: Wildlife - 5 pts What is a riparian buffer zone?

43. Question: Pollution Solutions - 1 pt Wise use of our natural resources.

44. Answer: Pollution Solutions - 1 pt What is conservation?

45. Question: Pollution Solutions - 2 pts Planting one of these is like a natural air conditioner, helping to clean and cool the air.

46. Answer: Pollution Solutions - 2 pts What is a tree?

47. Question: Pollution Solutions - 3 pts Aluminum, glass, plastic and motor oil

48. Answer: Pollution Solutions - 3 pts What can be recycled?

49. Question: Pollution Solutions - 4 pts Start a pile of grass clippings, leaves and vegetable waste and you will be doing this.

50. Answer: Pollution Solutions - 4 pts What is composting?

51. Question: Pollution Solutions - 5 pts A protective zone of trees and vegetation allowed to grow along water banks to filter pollutants.

52. Answer: Pollution Solutions - 5 pts What is a riparian buffer?