Statistics for US Watersheds Quiz

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  • This quiz has been taken 23 times
  • The average score is 10 of 15

Answer Stats

HintAnswer% Correct
The Missouri hydrologic region crosses an international border into which country?Canada
100%
Name a state partially within the Great Basin.California | Idaho | Nevada | Oregon | Utah | Wyoming
95%
Name a city of 100,000 people or more entirely within the Great Lakes hydrologic region.Amherst | Ann Arbor | Buffalo | Cleveland | Clinton | Detroit | Fort Wayne | Grand Rapids | Green Bay | Lansing | Milwaukee | Rochester | South Bend | Sterling Heights | Syracuse | Toledo | Warren
91%
Other than the Upper and Lower Mississippi, name one hydrologic region which is part of the Mississippi River drainage basin.Arkansas-White-Red | Missouri | Ohio | Tennessee
91%
Which is the only state from which water can flow into the Gulf of Mexico but not the Mississippi River?Florida
91%
Name a state other than Utah from which water flows into the Great Salt Lake.Idaho | Wyoming
91%
Name a state which is exclusively part of hydrologic regions which drain into the Pacific. HINT: One of them is landlocked.Arizona | Hawaii | Washington
82%
Name the state from which water might flow into the Hudson Bay or the Atlantic Ocean.Minnesota
77%
Name the river which has the highest discharge into the Pacific in the Americas.Columbia River
59%
The state of Montana contains watersheds which eventually drain into three different bodies of water: the Pacific, Atlantic, and...Hudson Bay
59%
The better-known Colorado River empties into the Pacific. However, another river by that name with a drainage basin spanning two states empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Name one of those states.New Mexico | Texas
59%
Which river caused the deadliest river flood in US history, excluding dam breaches?Ohio River
45%
Name one of the three rivers which lend their names to the hydrologic region in the above state from which water flows into the Hudson Bay.Souris River | Rainy River | Red River of the North
36%
Into which Louisiana river are most of the tributaries of the Mississippi also connected before entering the Gulf of Mexico?Atchafalaya River
23%
The state of South Carolina is entirely within a hydrologic region. Which one?South Atlantic-Gulf
5%

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