Today’s date ______________ Your grade in school __________

Name of your school ___________________________________

1. What is a watershed? (Define in one sentence)

2. What is the name of the nearest water body to your school? (Be as specific as possible)

3. Which of the following is an example of point-source pollution?

a) Run-off from farms and yards
b) Stream bank erosion
c) Discharge from a sewage treatment plant

4. Please circle the four most important sources of pollution to the Chesapeake Bay.

a) Acid rain
b) Bacteria
c) Nitrogen
d) Oil/gas spills
e) Ozone
f) Phosphorus
g) Sediment
h) Toxic waste

The three most common land uses in your county are agriculture, forestry and residential/commercial.

5. Which land use is the most common in your county?

6. Which land use contributes the most pollution, acre for acre, to the Chesapeake Bay?

7. Which land use does the most to protect water quality?

8. Which land use is most often lost to residential/commercial development?

9. Where is the best place to plant or preserve trees in order to improve water quality?

a) Riparian (streamside) areas
b) Urban areas
c) High elevations

10. What is the recommended tree cover for urban areas?

a) 10%
b) 40%
c) 75%

(Check your answers!)