Watershed Vocab

Multiple Choice

An area of permeable layer of rock or soil that holds a large amount of water in the saturated zone is called what?

• Aquifer
• Spring
• Well
• Reservoir

Multiple Choice

The water that fills lakes and rivers

• groundwater
• surface water
• water table
• saturated zone

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Wastes produced by agriculture, households, industry, mining, and other human activities can end up in ______________.

• groundwater
• streams and rivers
• oceans
• All of these choices

Multiple Choice

What is the type of water that moves underground?

• surface water
• water table
• groundwater
• watershed

Multiple Choice

What is all the water that runs off the surface of the land and washes into rivers, streams, and other waterways called?

• Runoff
• Storm Drain
• Surface Water
• Tributary

Multiple Choice

What is a watershed?

• Water in an area
• Water that flows into a river or stream
• Land that water flows over and through
• Water that is salty

Multiple Choice

Why is gravity a factor in watersheds? 

• it causes the water to flow away from a watershed
• it causes the water to flow down towards a watershed

Multiple Choice

Water from precipitation that drains into a gully  that slows into a stream, which in turn flows into a river lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, or the ocean.

• surface water
• ground water
• runoff 
• drainage

Multiple Choice

If gasoline or oil or trash goes into a storm drain in the street, it goes directly...

• to the sewage treatment plant
• into the stream
• to groundwater
• none of the above