Watersheds

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What is a watershed?

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What is an example of ridgeline and divides?

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Where do all River systems lead to?

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What is a Tributary?

Multiple Choice

Why are wetlands important?

• Providing somewhere to play

• maintaining water quality

• Because I said so

• They are needed to make it rain

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An Estuary is a mix .......water and .......water.

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What is the largest estuaries in teh USA

Match

Match the following

• Chesapeake Bay

• Estuary

• Wetland

• Tributary

• River Systems

 largest and one of the most productive estuaries in the United States

fresh river water empties into the salty waters of an ocean

are transition zones between dry land and bodies of water

are streams and smaller rivers that join together to form a larger river as they move across a water

includes all the branches of water as if flows across a watershed to the ocean.

•  largest and one of the most productive estuaries in the United States

• fresh river water empties into the salty waters of an ocean

• are transition zones between dry land and bodies of water

• are streams and smaller rivers that join together to form a larger river as they move across a water

• includes all the branches of water as if flows across a watershed to the ocean.