Watershed

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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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is a watershed?

• Land that collects and channels water froma small body of water to a larger body of water
• the shape of the land determined by elevation
• A natural stream of water of considerable  volume
• a river and all its tributaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is topography?

• a graph showing all the different topos
• A map of all the waterways in an area
• the shape of the land determined by the elevation

Why is gravity a factor in watersheds? 

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The water that fills lakes and rivers

• groundwater
• surface water
• water table
• saturated zone

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water stored  in cracks and pores below the Earth's surface is called:

• Groundwater
• Bogs
• Water in the ground
• surface water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

This is an example of

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• watershed

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This is an example of

• surface water

• watershed

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This is an example of

• a lake

• a watershed

• ground water

• surface water

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• a river

• surface water

• ground water

• watershed