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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 8

Salmon, Water & Forests

Resources and hard choices

What your child practices

Salmon, dams, forests and water, renewable and nonrenewable resources, and weighing the costs and benefits of decisions such as dam removal.

Washington State Learning Standards learning standard: E4.6-8.3; G2.6-8.3; E1.6-8.2 · Washington's natural resources, sustainability and the costs and benefits of resource choices

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is a fish ladder?

    • A kind of net
    • A boat
    • A series of pools that lets fish swim past a dam
    • A ladder for fishers

  2. Question 2

    Why is water a big issue in eastern Washington?

    • No one lives there
    • Water is free and unlimited
    • It's dry, and farms, towns, fish and Tribes all need it
    • There's too much rain

  3. Question 3

    Why are salmon important in Washington?

    • They are pets
    • They only live in lakes
    • They feed people and wildlife and support Tribes, jobs and ecosystems
    • They aren't important

  4. Question 4

    What is one cost of hydroelectric dams?

    • They cause volcanoes
    • They pollute the air with smoke
    • They flood land and harm salmon runs
    • They use oil

  5. Question 5

    How do dams affect salmon?

    • They can block salmon from swimming upstream to spawn
    • They have no effect
    • They make salmon grow wings
    • They help every salmon

  6. Question 6

    Why do others oppose removing the lower Snake River dams?

    • They harm no one
    • They make salmon
    • They provide power, irrigation and barge shipping
    • They are brand new

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