AIS Awareness Course Exam

Question 1 of 7

By educating all Whatcom County boaters and residents, the Aquatic Invasive Species Prevention Program aims to protect:

Question 2 of 7

The goal of decontamination is to kill and remove all evidence of aquatic invasive species using high-pressure, hot water.

Question 3 of 7

What are inspectors looking and feeling for when they conduct a physical watercraft inspection?

Question 4 of 7

How do quagga and zebra mussels spread from an affected water body to another water body?

Question 5 of 7

Once an aquatic invasive species becomes established in a waterbody, it becomes increasingly difficult and costly to manage the population.

Question 6 of 7

You decide to take your boat from Lake Samish to Lake Terrell. How can you help prevent the spread of Asian clams between these two lakes?

Question 7 of 7

Quagga and zebra mussels came to North America in the ballast tanks and on the anchor chains of large, transoceanic ships that entered the Great Lakes.