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Self Test for Eight Tools of Watershed Protection Module

Click on the appropriate response to each question below. After you've completed the quiz, you can calculate your score and compare your answers to the correct answers by clicking on the calculate score button that follows the quiz.

A passing grade is 7 of 10 correct, or 70%.

1. Land use planning is the single most important tool of watershed protection.
  A.True
  B.False
 		 2. The basic goals of land use planning are to: 1) apply land use planning techniques to redirect development while preserving sensitive areas and 2) to maintain or reduce the impervious cover within a given watershed.
  A.True
  B.False
 
3. A three zone buffer is a buffer that is in three zone types: an overlay zone, a performance zone and a large lot zone.
  A.True
  B.False
 		 4. The most destructive stage of the development cycle is clearing and grading.
  A.True
  B.False
 
5. The most effective technique for providing erosion and sediment control is to create aquatic buffers.
  A.True
  B.False
 		 6. Stormwater management practices can help to maintain groundwater recharge and quality, reduce stormwater pollutant loads, protect stream channels, prevent increased overbank flooding and safely convey extreme floods.
  A.True
  B.False
 
7. Structural stormwater management practices include ponds, wetlands, infiltration, filtering systems and open channels.
  A.True
  B.False
 		 8. Properly functioning septic systems are never a source of nutrient loads.
  A.True
  B.False
9. Non-stormwater discharge flows include septic systems, sanitary sewers, and runoff from confined animal feeding lots.
  A.True
  B.False
 		 10. Urban "return flows" are septic system or sanitary sewer backups.
  A.True
  B.False
 
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