Watershed Basics
This is an area of land where all the surface and ground water drain into one big body of water.
What is a watershed?
The starting point of a river.
What is the source?
Harmful materials that enter water.
What is pollution?
Using less water at home helps us do this.
What is conserve water?
Water stored in the cracks and pores and fractures in underground soil, sand, and rock layers.
What is ground water?
What is the ocean?
The flat land around a river that often floods.
What is a floodplain?
The term that describes the movement over land surfaces that picks up pollutants.
What is runoff?
Turning off the tap while brushing or fixing leaks.
What is ways you can conserve water at home?
Any body of water that collects naturally on the Earth's surface.
What is surface water?
The process when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets.
What is condensation?
The natural process being worn away by moving water.
What is erosion?
What is fertilizers, oil, or trash?
Planting trees helps prevent erosion.
True or False
What is true?
This happens when too much runoff causes rivers or streams to overflow.
What is flooding?
This part of a watershed receives and collects precipitation before it flows into streams.
What is the headwaters or upper basin?
This land form is made when a river drops sand and soil where it meets a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
This chemical flows into ponds during heavy rain.
What are lawn chemicals?
Clean water resources are easier and cheaper to maintain for everyone.
What is reducing pollution for water conservation?
A watershed only includes rivers and streams.
True or False
What is false?
Two things that affect how quickly water travels through a watershed.
What is slope and soil type.
The area of highland that separates one watershed from another.
What is a ridge line or divide.
This from neighborhoods pollutes nearby creeks.
What is trash and pet waste?
Planting trees near rivers helps prevent this from happening to the soil.
What is erosion?
Rock or soil layer that holds ground water.
What is an aquifer?