Watershed
All the land that drains into a certain body of water.
What is a watershed?
A measurement of the amount of open space in a rock sample.
What is porosity?
What is groundwater?
Anything that decreases the water quality due to human activity.
What is pollution?
The process from the water cycle that first brings water into a watershed.
What is precipitation?
What is runoff?
A measurement of how quickly water can flow through a rock sample.
What is permeability?
The place underground where groundwater is stored.
What is an aquifer?
What is agricultural pollution?
The place in a river where water is most likely to be polluted.
What is downstream/the mouth of the river?
A stream, creek, or river that flows into a larger body of water.
What is a tributary?
What is low porosity?
The process water uses to travel to an aquifer.
What is percolation?
Human intervention to prevent or lower pollution and protect the water in a watershed.
What is conservation?
The chemical formula for water.
What is H2O?
All water found in bodies of water above ground.
What is surface water?
The level of permeability of a rock with many paths/connections between pores.
What is high permeability?
The depth underground you have to dig before hitting the top of an aquifer.
What is the water table?
The place in a watershed where water is least likely to be polluted.
What is headwaters/upstream?
Concrete parking lots are an example of this kind of surface that does not allow water to travel through.
What is an impermeable surface?
The raised edges of a watershed, usually a mountain range or hills. Sometimes called a ridge.
What is high porosity, low permeability.
The amount of water in an aquifer with a low water table.
What is low/little groundwater?
Planting trees, filtering wastewater, and building barriers to prevent sediment from eroding into water.
The watershed Arnold Middle School can be found in.
What is the Cypress Creek Watershed?