WED and Watershed 1

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

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Pollutants from a highway enter a stream or creek and travel to a river. River water tested with the pollutant found is called  

• point source pollution
  Available space for crops
• nonpoint source pollution.
• eutrophic pollution
• riparian pollution

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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

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What is Point Source Pollution (PSP) ?

• When you cannot trace the direct source of pollution
• When you can trace the point of the source - "pipe to source"

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The process that breaks down rocks and other materials on Earth's surface is called

• weathering

• erosion

• soil conservation

• decomposition

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How does freezing water cause the weathering of rocks?  The freezing water—

• keeps the rocks in place
• makes the rocks last longer
• expands cracks and breaks rocks
• causes rocks to fall in landslides

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Flood waters moving soil from one location to another

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

What is physical weathering?

• The process that breaks down rock
  through dissolving rock and chemical
  changes.
• Process by which rocks are broken down
  into smaller pieces.

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A mudslide flowing down a steep hill is called?

• Weathering
• Erosion
• Deposition

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Which of the following is not a form of weathering? 

• Cows grazing in the fields
• Rocks rubbing against each other
• A tree roots growing through the concrete
• Snow and Ice breaking a rock

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