Water

Watershed

100

What is a watershed?

The land area that drains to one stream, lake or river.

200

What is the purpose of the watershed?

A watershed is to collect, store, filter, and safely release water.

300

Where does a watershed empty?

The mouth

400

A watershed is like what?

A bowl

500

What flow into watersheds?

Tributary

Vocab

100

Runoff

Water that runs along lands surface.

200

Evaporation

Water changing liquid to gas.

300

Aquifer 

Saturated area below the water table.

 

400

Condensation

Water vapor back into liquid.

500

Transpiration

Water vapor leaving plant leaves.

Old, Yourful, or Mature

100

Narrow channel

Yourful

200

Oxbow Lakes are present 

Old

300

Flood plains BEGINS to form

Mature

400

U-shaped Valley

Old

500

U-shaped Valley

Yourful

River system

100

Where does it start?

Source

200

What flows into the mouth?

Main river

300

What is an oxbow lake?

A curved lake formed at a former oxbow where the main stream of the river has cut across the narrow end and no longer flows around the loop of the bend.

400

What is a Floodplain?

A low-lying, flat area of land adjacent to a river or stream that is susceptible to flooding.

500

Where does it end?

Mouth

Surface Water

100

What percent of Earths water is freshwater?

2.5%

200

What is an estuary?

An estuary is where the mouth of a freshwater river meets the ocean.

300

What percent is available for living things?

1.2%

400

A watershed is an area of land that what into a particular body of water?

Drains

500

How is the Chesapeake Bay changing?

The Chesapeake Bay is the lager estuary in the US and one of the most productive estuaries in the world.