Watersheds and Wetlands

What do you call the land that water flows across, under, and through on its way to a body of water?

• Tributary
• River system
• Headwaters
• Watershed

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Which river does the majority of water in Loudoun County flow into?

• Chesapeake
• James
• Potomac
• York

The Potomac River flows into which major watershed?

• Atlantic
• Bull Run
• Chesapeake Bay
• Broad Run

Biotic factors of a watershed are:

• Living
• Non-living

Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.

• surface water
• ground water
• aquifer
• watershed

Natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from an area.

• drainage
• runoff
• non-point source
• point source

An area of land where the surface water and ground water drain into a particular body of water.

• aquifer
• watershed
• subsidence
• divide

A geographical barrier.

• aquifer
• divide
• runoff
• point source

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

Pollutants are introduced into surface or ground water without a specific location source.

• point source
• non-point source
• water pollution
• polluntants