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What is it called when creeks and smaller rivers join together to make a larger river?

• River Systems

• Topography

• Watershed

• Groundwater

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Abiotic means: 

• Living
• Dead
• Non-living
• Water

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What is an area of higher elevation that separates watersheds?

• Estuary
• Divide
• Wetland
• Transition zones

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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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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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The use of pesticides and fertilizers is carefully monitored 
because of the effect they can have on the environment. 
Which of the following is a possible negative effect of the use 
of these chemical on the environment?

• Runoff carries these chemicals into lakes and streams.
• Theses chemicals cannot be purchased in large bulk.
• 
  These chemicals are expensive to produce.
  
• Storage space for these chemicals is limited.

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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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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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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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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