Potomac Highlands Watershed School: Elementary School

Potomac and Chesapeake Bay Scavenger Hunt

 

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1. How big is the Cacapon River watershed? 
2. Where does ground water come from?
3. What watershed has a larger population - the Shenandoah or the Lower Potomac? Which is a larger watershed?
4. What is West Virginia’s state fish? 
5. What type of bedrock makes up Seneca Rocks?
6. How long is the Potomac River and where does it start?
7. Cacapon is a derivative of a Shawnee word meaning this?
8. What are three reasons that forests are important?
9. What states do you find in the Chesapeake Bay watershed?