Watersheds Lesson

Open Ended

Where do you think you would find the largest supply of liquid freshwater on Earth?

Multiple Select

What is surface water? Select all that apply.

• Any body of water found on Earth

• Oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams

• water in a watershed

• Wetlands, Swamps, and Bogs

Multiple Select

What is an example of Groundwater? Select all that apply.

• Aquifers

• Springs

• Wells

• Answer not listed

Open Ended

What is a Watershed?

Multiple Select

What is an example of a watershed? Select all that apply.

• River

• Stream

• Ocean

• Aquifer

• Lake

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Open Ended

What are some types of materials (Rocks) that are permeable?

Open Ended

What are two types of aquifers?

Open Ended

What is an aquifer, and where is it found?

Open Ended

What is a watertable?

Open Ended

What is the recharge zone?

Open Ended

Explain the water cycle in a watershed.

Match

Match the word to the defintion

• The process where water moves through soil and rock, filtering down into underground layers.

• Underground layer of permeable rock, or sediment that collects, holds and transports water

• The top level of groundwater in the soil. It rises and falls depending on how much water is in the ground.

• An area of land where all the water drains into a common body of water, such as a river of lake.

Percolation

Aquifer

Water Table

Watershed

• Percolation

• Aquifer

• Water Table

• Watershed