Watersheds
Watersheds in VA lead to TWO of these three main bodies of water.
What is the Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina Sounds and Gulf of Mexico (America)?
Name one water that wetlands help improve water quality.
What is regulating runoff, reducing erosion, recharging groundwater and filtering sediments and trapping pollution?
This natural process can cause soil to wash into rivers and streams, decreasing water quality.
What is erosion?
These are the living parts of an ecosystem, such as plants and animals.
What are biotic factors?
This force pulls water downhill, causing watersheds to drain toward rivers, lakes, or oceans.
What is gravity?
Small streams or rivers that flow into larger rivers are called this.
What are tributaries?
67!
Pollution that comes from multiple sources that are easy to identify.
What is point source pollution?
The #1 quality in determining the health of an ecosystem.
What is a water quality?
The highest point on an area of land that often seperates two watersheds.
What is a divide?
Most of Virginia's water drains into this main body of water.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The transition zone between dry land and bodies of water such rivers, lakes or bays.
What are wetlands?
What is "Do It" by Stray Kids?
What is Boston Celtics?
This is the measure of amount of salt in the water.
The year that Spongebob Squarepants first aired.
What is 1999 (during the Nickelodeon Choice Awards)?
When water infiltrates the soil and rocks it becomes this.
What is groundwater?
Pollution that comes from multiple sources that are not easy to identify.
What is non-point pollution?
Bacteria break down dead materials and recycle nutrients, helping keep watersheds healthy.
What is a biotic factor?
The watershed you are currently standing in.
What is the James River Watershed?
This is the place where you find brackish water, a mix of fresh water from rivers and salt water from the oceans.
What is an estuary?
The year that Brookville Middle School was built!
What is 1969?
A measure of water clarity, indicating how clear or cloud it is.
What is turbidity?
Four abiotic factors needed for survival and for an ecosystem to survive are water, sunlight, shelter and this.
What are gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide)?
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