WED and Watershed TEST - ONE ATTEMPT

Abiotic means: 

• Living
• Dead
• Non-living
• Water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Biotic means:

• Living
• Non-living
• Man made
• Found in nature

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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"

Tags

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.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An area of permeable layer of rock or soil that holds a large amount of water in the saturated zone is called what?

• Aquifer
• Spring
• Well
• Reservoir

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

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

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

If a person dumps oil down the drain by their home (even miles away), it can end up in far away places like a bay or ocean.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

A industrial powerplant dumps its heated wastewater straight from a pipe into a stream. This is an example of -

• eutrophic pollution
  over-treated drinking water.
• riparian pollution
  flooding in the local aquifer.
• point source pollution.
• nonpointsource pollution.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3