Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River is in which state.
Answer
Mississippi
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Question 2
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The Mississippi- Missouri drainage basin covers what proportion of the USA.
Answer
1/3
1/2
1/5
3/5
Question 3
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Until what year was the Mississippi River considered 'untameable'.
Answer
1971
1993
1911
1927
Question 4
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The hard engineering strategies along the Mississippi River were designed to withstand a 1:100 year flood event.
What was the 1993 flood estimated to be?
Answer
A 1:150 year flood.
A 1:250 year flood.
A 1:500 year flood.
A 1:1000 year flood.
Question 5
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How many people died in the 1993 Mississippi River Flood.
Answer
50
97
101
348
Question 6
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What flood management strategies were introduced after the 1927 flood? Select five answers?
Answer
Dams and Reservoirs
Afforestation
Diversionary Spillways
Channelisation
Strengthening Levees
River Restoration
Wetland and Riverbank Conservation
Question 7
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How many federal levees broke or were overtopped in the 1993 flood?
Answer
31
49
14
22
Question 8
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After the 1927 flood, how many dams were built along the Missouri stretch of the Mississippi River?
Answer
6
2
3
8
Question 9
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The 19 reservoirs and dams created by Tennessee Valley Authority limited river levels to 9.8m in 1957. What would the river level have been without this management?
Answer
16.5
19.2
21.3
32.6
Question 10
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Between 1934 and 1945 a 530km stretch of the Mississippi River was shortened by how much?