Water resources
A body of water surrounded by land
What is a lake?
What animal product can be used to produce clothing, belts, shoes and seating materials?
What is leather?
What mineral is commonly used to build countertops?
What is granite?
An area of geographic land that drains into a river, lake or ocean
What is a watershed?
Plants are also know as what in the food chain?
What is a producer?
A large body of salt water
What is an ocean?
What are two major ways humans use animals as a product?
What are fiber, food, leather, transportation, companions and tools
What minerals are broken down rock and used in construction of houses and roads?
What is sand and gravel?
If the Chesapeake Bay was badly polluted, what large water source would be directly affected?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Forests provide what resource for humans?
What is lumber?
A natural stream of fresh water that flows along a path
What are the three common animal resources found in Virginia's Valley and Ridge region?
What are poultry, beef and dairy?
Items mined from earth such as limestone, granite, sand, coal and gravel.
What are minerals?
The four majors rivers of Virginia flow into what body of water?
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
How do plants provide aid to soil?
What is helping to stop erosion?
A natural OR man-made lake that or large tank that is used for collecting or storing water
What is a reservoir?
Piedmont is known for what animal resource?
*Used for transportation*
What are horses?
What mineral is considered a fossil fuel?
What is coal?
The Chesapeake Bay watershed
What is our local watershed?
What is a forest that is planted by humans called?
A wide indentation on the shore line with deep brackish water (mix of salt and fresh water) and land on 3 sides
What is a bay?
The Chesapeake bay provides what animal resource to humans?
What mineral is found in shallow waters, is used for construction and can help with pollutants in the air?
What is limestone?
Pollutants can flow to other parts of the watershed, impacting natural resources that people need
What is we all live downstream?
What do forests provide for animals?
What is a habitat?