12 Days of Quizzes

Day 7

Merry Christmas! Hopefully you have a little time to spend with family and friends this holiday season.

If you are preparing to take the California Supplemental Exam for landscape architects in 2013, you can find some time to prepare for the test.

Deck the hall, grab a peppermint hot chocolate, and test your knowledge with another CSE quiz. This is the seventh quiz in the 12 Days of Quizzes series.

On the Seventh Day of Christmas…

On the Seventh Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Seven swans-a-swimming…

Since swans need water and aquatic habitats to swim in, lets discuss wetlands. As you already know, wetlands are a sensitive topic. Wetlands are the most heavily regulated and protected landscape habitats that landscape architects deal with.

Several state and local agencies exercise overlapping authority on the numerous wetland areas in the state.

The California Supplemental Exam (CSE) for landscape architects has several questions on wetlands and the state and federal agencies that regulate these lands.

Quiz 7 tests you knowledge of wetlands and regulations that govern develop in and around these unique habitats.

Quiz 7: California Wetlands

1. Wetland mapping does not include which of the following characteristics?

 topography
 vegetation
 elevation
 soils
 land use

2. What federal agency is primarily responsible for enforcing the Clean Water Act?

 United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)
 United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
 California Department of Fish and Game
 Regional Water Board

3. Where can you find an authoritative source of all federally recognized wetlands?

 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual
 Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Maps
 Lake And Streambed Alteration Program
 California Department of Fish and Game

4. What state program manages alteration to streams and wetlands?

 Regional Water Quality Control Board
 Wetlands Conservation Council
 Lake And Streambed Alteration Program
 Timberland Conservation Program

5. What federal agency would you contact for a permit if a project is next to a river or wetland?

 Timberland Conservation Program
 Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Maps
 CIMIS
 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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About John

John is a landscape architect who is currently preparing to take the California Supplemental Exam to become licensed in California. He is currently a licensed professional landscape architect in Georgia and Florida. John graduated from California State University, Pomona with a BSLA degree in landscape architecture in 1997 and has extensive practice experience in residential and commercial landscape design.