CBA Review 2

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

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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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

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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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

When fertilizers enter surface water, they cause problems in 
the watershed by -

• increasing the amount of nutrients available to fish in lakes and streams.
• 
  clogging narrow streams and preventing water from flowing properly.
• raising the water level in nearby rivers to levels leading to flooding.
• causing rapid algal growth that decrease oxygen levels and choke aquatic life.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Overflow during a heavy rainstorm from a wastewater treatment plant would result in -

• 
  over-treated drinking water.
• 
  flooding in the local aquifer.
• polluted runoff into nearby ponds.
• weakened housing foundations.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

Sand is ___________, meaning that water can pass through easily.

• Permeable
• Impermeable
• Solid
• Soft

When water soaks down through the soil.

• deposition
• erosion
• infiltration
• sediment

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4