Watersheds
What is a Watershed?
It’s a land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and the ocean.
What is a ecosystem?
a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is a Aquifer?
a body of permeable rock which can contain or transmit groundwater.
What is a food chain?
A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
What is a food web?
A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.
Where do watersheds form?
By bodys of water
What is the most important thing in an ecosystem?
the sun
What is a water table?
the level below which the ground is saturated with water.
What is the first level of a food chain called?
Producer
What is the top predator in a food web called?
Apex predator
What usually runs through a water shed?
a river
What other than the sun is very important in an ecosystem?
Producers
What is a saturated zone?
Area below soaked in water
What is the Second layer of a food chain called
Primary consumer
What is the limit for the number of animals that can be in a food web?
Trick question there is no limit it is till one living thing can't get eaten
True or False: There are usually mountins or high spots in a watershed
True
What is something in an ecosystem?
Anything living
What is the unsaturated zone?
The unsaturated zone is the portion of the subsurface above the water table.
What is the third level of a food chain called?
Secondary consumers
Name a apex predator
lions, humans, anything that can't get eaten.
Name one watershed?
Any watershed (might be a little hard)
Name a ecosystem
any ecosystem
What is a spring?
Water flowing out of an aquifer
What is the last level of a food chain called?
Tertiary Consumers
Name one food web
any ecosystem that has living organism