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Quiz on Karst and Water Quality

Background: View the Karst Movie, Macroinvertebrate Lunch movie, and the Sinkhole Movie. Look at the the Macroinvertebrate Resources page, especially the Cast of Characters and Nonpoint Source Pollution: What To Do.
This is a "practice" quiz, you will not get a score.

  1. Which of the following is an example of a point source pollutant?

    run-off from roads

    pesticides from farmland

    septic tank leaks from houses

    pipe dumping chlorine

    run-off from a city

  2. An example of polluted run-off or non-point source pollution would be?

    pastureland animal waste

    a number of construction sites

    shopping center parking lots

    all of the above

    none of the above

  3. Which of the following is NOT an example of a Best Management Practice?

    planting crops up to a stream bank

    hay bales alongside a construction site

    planting trees on a stream bank

    fencing livestock from entering a stream

    not building closer than 100 feet from a stream

  4. Widespread overland runoff containing pollutants, where the source of the contamination does not originate from one specific location, is called?

    point source pollution

    watershed pollution

    non-accountable pollution

    polluted runoff (non-point)

    unaffected pollution

  5. The term which refers to methods adopted by resource users designed to lessen harm done to the environment that might result from their activities is called?

    best management practices

    lower impact processes

    responsible resource choices

    mitigation methodology

    do no harm choice

  6. When groundwater dissolves rock, which the following may result?

    wells

    precipitation

    transpiration

    evaporation

    caves

  7. When groundwater discharges at the surface, it is called a ?

    lake

    spring

    river

    creek

    lagoon

  8. Macroinvertebrate means?

    large, with a backbone

    large, with bony vertebrae

    an animal that is good to eat

    an be seen with the naked eye but has no backbone

    has no backbone and can only be seen with a microscope

  9. An example of a macroinvertebrate that tolerates pollution is a/an ?

    caddisfly

    mayfly

    stonefly

    aquatic worm

    clam

  10. A relatively large number of diverse species indicates that a stream is ?

    clean

    contaminated

    polluted

    stressed

    recovering

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