Virginia Watersheds

The Chesapeake Bay is important to the larger ocean ecosystem because...

• it is the largest habitat for blue crabs in the United States

• It provides spawning grounds, nursery beds, and feeding grounds for many species of ocean creatures

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Which is the best action to help protect water resources in Virginia?

• Put hazardous waste in with house trash.

• Rinse spilled gasoline with a hose.

• Organize a river cleanup program.

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Virginina has many different water resources. Which has fresh water?

• Chesapeake Bay

• Atlantic Ocean

• Lakes & Rivers

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What is a river?

• A natural large stream of flowing freshwater

• A saltwater inlet of the ocean

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What is a body of water that is surrounded by land?

• lake

• ocean

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Which watershed is this?

• York

• James

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Which states other than Virginia make up the Chesapeake Bay Watershed?

• Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama, Deleware

• New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland

All water eventually empties into

• an ocean

• a lake

• the ground

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Water that flows along Earth's surface to eventually return to the ocean is called ___.

• Runoff

• Storm drain

• Tributary

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What is a body of water that combines freshwater from rivers and lakes with saltwater from the ocean?

• Estuary

• Floodplain

• Tributary

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