Watersheds
This describes water that moves across the land.
What is surface water?
These are renewable resources raised for food.
What are farm animals or livestock?
Nonrenewable and nonliving substances found in the earth.
What are minerals?
What kind of water is in Virginia's lakes?
Fresh water
A natural or man made body of water is totally surrounded by land, and name one of Virginia's.
Lake: Smith Mountain, Lake Anna, Lake Drummond
This is mined in the Appalachian Plateau of a source of energy for ships and trains, making steel, and creating electricity.
What is coal?
Fill in the blank to better understand watersheds. We all live ________.
What is downstream?
This is a body of water that opens up to a larger body of water, like an ocean.
What is a bay?
Name 3 different ways we use the forests in Virginia.
Lumber from trees, habitats for animals, recreation, enjoying nature.
*Not farmland. Farmland needs flat land.
This mineral used for a variety of purposes including building bricks, blackboards, and gravel can be found in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
What is limestone?
This kind of forest is planted by humans to be used as a resource.
What is a cultivated forest?
Starting north and moving south, name Virginia's 4 major rivers.
Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James.
Glass is made from what natural resource?
Sand
Why are trees called a renewable resource?
Because they can be replaced in one generation.
Other than the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, what other two major watersheds are found in Virginia?
The Gulf of Mexico, and the North Carolina Sounds.
This is a man made place to store large amounts of water.
Reservoir
Plants hold soil in place to reduce what?
What is erosion?
The most important mineral in Virginia.
What is Coal?
Throughout the state of Virginia, good quality soil provides land that is good for...