Water Water Everywhere
Pollution Solutions
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Parts of a Whole
Miscellaneous
100
You use approximately 50 gallons of water every time you do this.
What is taking a shower?
100
Wise use of our natural resources such as water.
What is conservation?
100

The watershed you are currently standing in.

What is the James River Watershed?

100
Where the fresh water of a river mixes with the ocean.
What is an estuary?
100

Nonliving factors in an ecosystem are considered to be...

What are abiotic factors?

200
Snow rain and sleet are all forms of this.
What is precipitation?
200

The year that Spongebob Squarepants first aired. 

What is 1999 (during the Nickelodeon Choice Awards)?

200

Our litter, oil spills and pollution in Lynchburg will eventually end up in this large body of water.

What is the Chesapeake Bay?

200
An area like bogs swamps and marshes where pollution is filtered and flood waters absorbed.
What is a wetland?
200

Name at least two abiotic factors required for survival. 

What are sunlight, gases, shelter and water?

300
Much of the worlds fresh water is tied up here.
What are glaciers?
300
Pollution from a non-specific source. Its hard to point where it comes from
What is non-point source pollution?
300

Closest WITHOUT going over. How many watersheds are there in Virginia?

What is 14?

Big Sandy Chesapeake Bay Chowan Clinch Eastern Shore Holston James New PeeDee Potomac Rappahannock Roanoke York

300

When water infiltrates the soil and rocks it becomes this.

What is groundwater?

300

Has the most rushing yards in the NFL this season.

Who is Saquan Barkley?

400

Name at least two benefits of wetlands.

What are Regulating Runoff (Control Flooding), Filtering Sediments, Reducing Erosion, Recharging Groundwater and Providing Plant and Animal Habitats?

400
Industry, sewage, and agriculture.
Who are the largest contributors to water pollution?
400

The land that drains into a body of water. It is the land where water flows across or through on its way to a stream, lake, wetland or main body of water. 

What is a watershed?

400
Where most watersheds end up.
What is the ocean?
400

This is a measure of how well light penetrates water.

What is turbidity?

500

What is the student describing in their notebook?

Class Notes:

 • where fresh water from rivers and streams mixes with salty ocean water 

• brackish water

What is an estuary?

500
When determining if an ecosystem is healthy or not, you should first look at the..

What is water quality?

500

The largest estuary in the contiguous United States and one of the most productive!

What is the Chesapeake Bay?

500

The highest point on an area of land that often seperates two watersheds.

What is a divide?

500

Name at least two of the three types of wetlands. 

What are bogs, marshes and swamps?

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