Watersheds/Water Resources
Natural Resources
Vocabulary
Mineral Resources/Soil and Land
Miscellaneous
100
an area over which surface water flows to a single collection place
What is a watershed?
100
A material found in nature that is useful to people
What is a natural resource?
100
Forest designed specifically for the planting of products
What is a cultivated forest?
100
Rock formed chiefly from animal remains and used in statues, buildings, roofing materials, and blackboards
What is limestone?
100
Phrase used by environmental programs to save and preserve watersheds; eventually all trash travels to the ocean
What is "We all live downstream"?
200
The number of watersheds in Virginia
What is three?
200
Natural resource that is important to VA's economy and is used to generate electricity
What is coal?
200
Long, narrow body of water that flows along a path through the land
What is a river?
200
Very hard rock that can be polished and is used in buildings, monuments, roads, and bricks
What is granite?
200
Natural or man-made lake or large tank used for collecting and storing water
What is a reservoir?
300
This watershed covers about 50% of Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed?
300
Trees, water, sand
What are natural resources?
300
Body of water with land all around it (surrounded)
What is a lake?
300
Loose material in grains or small pieces of rocks and pebbles that are used to build roads and to make concrete and glass
What are sand and gravel?
300
Pine, spruce, fir, oak, maple, hickory, beech
What are trees of VA?
400
The other two watersheds in Virginia
What are Gulf of Mexico and North Carolina Sounds?
400
Paper, logs, bleach
What are man-made resources?
400
Part of a large body of water that reaches into the land
What is a bay?
400
Black solid substance that takes thousands of years to be created and is used to heat buildings, make steel, and generate electricity
What is coal?
400
Name three lakes found in VA.
What are Smith Mountain Lake, Lake Drummond, and Lake Anna?
500
Tells which watershed you live in
What is your watershed address?
500
Name five natural resources found in VA.
What are forests, arable land, coal, sand, rocks, wildlife and aquatic organisms, clean water and air, beautiful scenery?
500
Farmable land
What is arable land?
500
Supports a variety of life, provides space for many economic activities, and offers a variety of recreational opportunities
What is Virginia's soil?
500
Name four major rivers found in VA.
What are the James, Potomac, Rappahannock, and York Rivers?
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