Water and Watersheds
The total land area that flows into a river, lake, bay or other body of water.
What is a watershed?
The direction that water flows in a watershed.
What is downhill?
Healthy populations of plants and animals are critical for this.
What is life?
Naturally occurring, building blocks of rocks that usually form crystals.
What are minerals?
These support a great variety of life and provides space to live, work and play.
What are Virginia's soil and land?
The name the ocean into which the Chesapeake Bay drains.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Harmful substances affecting watersheds in the phrase "We All Live Downstream."
What is pollution?
Holds soil in place, helps prevent erosion, provides food, shelter, habitats, and produce oxygen.
What is a plant?
A sedimentary rock found in Virginia that can be burned as an energy source.
What is coal?
Watersheds, minerals, rocks, ores, soil, land and forests and beautiful scenery
What are Virginia Natural Resources?
The term to describe a navigable body of water.
What is waterway?
The term for a drainage basin from many different rivers far away from where you live.
What is a watershed?
Conditions or surroundings in which plant or animal lives
What is an environment?
These natural resources are used as building materials and fuel sources.
What are minerals, rocks and ores?
Things made by people out of materials that began as natural resources.
What is a man-made resource?
Rivers, lakes, bays, and the Atlantic Ocean are examples of this type of natural resource.
What water resources?
The health of a watershed can drastically impact this.
What is an ecosystem and community?
When plants or animals take over habitats or resources.
What is invasive?
Glass is made from this.
What is sand?
Forests untouched by humans.
What is a natural forest?
The Virginia watershed that covers over half of Virginia's land surface.
What is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed??
Chemicals, pesticides, and waste are examples of _____ that effect the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
What are pollutants?
Food, fiber, and leather are examples of this type of resource.
What are animal resources?
This can happen when we dig up the Earth to extract rocks, minerals and ores.
What is erosion?
When useful trees are planted on farmlands after the removal of pre-existing natural forests by humans.
What is a cultivated forest?