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Study Guide Questions for 2008 Clean Water Celebration
Booth #1 - USDA-NRCS
a. What U.S. president said, "a nation that destroys its soil destroys itself"?
b. What is a major contributing factor to the siltation of the Illinois river?
Booth # 2 - Tri-County Regional Planning Commission
a. What is a watershed?
b. In what watershed do you go to school??
Booth #3 - Audubon Council of Illinois
Booth #4 - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
a. How many pumps does it take to fill the lock?
b. The Illinois River connects what 2 bodies of water?
Booth #5 - HOI Sierra Club
Booth #6 - Illinois Association of Groundwater
Professionals
a. What is the main source of drinking water in your community?
b. What is the hydrological cycle and why is it important?
Booth #7
Booth #8 - Mackinaw Valley Long Rifles
Booth #9/10 - Illinois American Water
a. Why is chlorine added to the water?
b. What is added to the water to prevent tooth decay?
Booth #11 - River's Project
a. How much sand, clay and loam are found in river solids?
b. How do you tell the difference between Walmart sand and river sand?
Booth #12 - Sun Foundation
a. What is an emulsion?
b. Give an example of an emulsion that we eat and that we wear.
Booth #13 - Hollis School
a. Why do some substances get wet and others repel water?
b. How do soap bubbles form?
Booth #14 - Peoria County Recycling
a. How much energy is saved by recycling one aluminum can?
b. How many plastic bottles are thrown away every 5 minutes?
Booth #15/16 - Illinois State Water Survey
a. How does stream channel erosion occur?
b. What can be done to control stream channel erosion?
Booth #17 - Water Campus
a. What is the term describing the "magnetic" properties of water?
b. What is an example of a non-polar material?
Booth #18/19 - Origami
Booth #20 - duplicate space for Illinois American Water
Booth #21 - Trees Forever- IL Buffer Partnership
a. What is a riparian buffer?
b. What are 3 things that riparian buffers do?
Booth #22/23 - East Peoria Community High School Hope Club
a. What are two methods of preventing erosion in streams and on
farmland?
b. Why are the Peoria lakes getting more shallow?
Booth #24 - Illinois Trappers Association
Booth #25 - Illinois Department of Public Health - West Nile Virus
a. What types of groups work together to manage mosquitoes?
b. What can you do to help manage mosquito numbers?
Booth #26 - Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
a. Name a simple device used to measure water clarity?
b. What is the name of critters used to measure water clarity?
Booth #27 - Tazewell County Health Department - Solid
Waste
a. Which items take up the most room in the landfill?
b. What is a leachate?
Booth #28 - Tazewell County Health Department - Central
Region Groundwater Protection
a. What material can be used to seal a well?
b. Name 2 routes of groundwater contamination.
Booth #29 - Tazewell County Health Department -
Groundwater
a. Describe problems with runoff.
b. How can you prevent excessive runoff?
Booth #30 - ISAWWA - PDC
Booth #31 - Illinois Department of Agriculture
a. How does no-till farming protect our soil?
b. How can fertilizers harm our lakes and streams?
Booth #32 - Pekin Community High School
a. What is eutriphication?
b. Why do we test for dissolved oxygen twice?
Booth #33 - Dundee Crown - Friends of the Fox River
a. What energy sources use water?
b. What energy sources impact water quality?
Booth #34 - Art Exhibit
Booth #35 - Larry’s Casting Kids
a. Name one way you can help keep the waterways you fish clean?
b. Name a species from the Illinois River that you can help protect by
protecting the waterways.
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