Watershed Wonders
What is the land area where all the water drains into the same river, lake, or ocean?
What is a watershed ?
What do you call the living parts of an ecosystem?
What is land that is covered with water for most or all of the year called?
What is wetland?
What do you call the place where freshwater from rivers meet saltwater from the ocean ?
What is an estuary ?
What do we call a community of living and nonliving things that interact in one area?
What usually causes water to flow downhill into a watershed?
What is gravity?
What do you call the nonliving parts of an ecosystem like sunlight and water?
What are abiotic factors?
Name one example of a wetland?
Is the water is an estuary salty, fresh, or a mix of both?
What is a mix of both?
What is the role of a producer in an ecosystem?
What is making its own food?
What are two main sources of water that flow into a watershed?
What is rain and melting snow?
What is biotic?
Wetlands help prevent what natural disaster by soaking up extra water?
What is flooding?
Why are estuaries important for baby fish and crabs?
What is they providing shelter and food?
What do we call animals that eat plants ?
What are herbivores?
If trash is thrown on the ground, how can it end up in a river?
What is a runoff?
Is sunlight biotic or abiotic ?
What is abiotic?
Wetlands act natural filters by cleaning what resource?
What is water?
Estuaries are often found near what large body of water?
What is an ocean?
What happens to an ecosystem if one species disappears?
What is the food chain can be affected/the balance can change ?
What is one way people can protect a watershed?
What is not littering/reducing pollution/planting trees?
Name two abiotic factors that plants need to survive.
What are sunlight and water?
Name one animal that might live in a wetland.
What is a frog, duck, fish, or alligator?
Name one benefit estuaries provide to humans.
What is fishing, protection from storms, or clear water?
What is the name for the path energy takes as animals eat plants and other animals ?
What is a food chain ?