Vocabulary
Something that is found in nature that is useful to people.
What is a natural resource
This body of water is usually surrounded on all sides by land.
What is a lake?
This natural resource is used to make construction materials like cement, mortar, and stones for buildings.
What is limestone?
An area of land that water flows over as it drains into a body of water?
What is a watershed?
Forests, water, soil, and minerals
What is a human-made (or man-made) resource.
Flows downhill from a source to a mouth.
What is a river?
This natural resource is used to make glass.
What is sand?
Chesapeake Bay, Gulf of Mexico, and North Carolina Sound
What are the three watersheds found in Virginia?
Glass, paper plates, plastic cups, and kitchen countertops.
What are human-made (or man-made) resources?
A resource that is once used can be used again.
What is a renewable resource?
Virginia's rivers, lakes, and bay are are source of these three things
What are food, transportation, and recreation.
You may find this natural resource in your kitchen or bathroom.
What is granite?
The largest watershed in Virginia.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed?
Solid materials that come from the ground.
What are mineral resources?
What is a cultivated forest?
A body of water that is surrounded on three sides by land and usually flows into a larger body of water.
What is a bay?
This nonrenewable natural resource is a source for energy.
What is coal?
This river flows into the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
What is the James (or York, Rappahannock, Potomac)?
Used for making driveways and roads.
What is gravel?
Groups of trees that grew on their own in an area.
What is a natural forest?
James, York, Rappahannock, and Potomac
What are the four major rivers in Virginia?
Farmers use this natural resource.
What happens at the higher elevations of a watershed affects everything else downstream.
What is "We all live downstream"?
The large body of water which the Chesapeake Bay flows into/
What is the Atlantic Ocean?