Virginia's Natural Resources

What is a natural resource?

• A useful material that is not produced by humans.

• A useful material that is produced by humans.

• A material that is not used very frequently.

A ____ is an area of land over which surface water flows to a single collection place.

• Watershed

• Lake

• River

• Puddle

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Natural resources are necessary or useful to humans.

• True

• False

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The materials from the watershed, including pollutants, add to the water flow and impact organisms.

• True

• False

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Virginia’s water resources include _____.

• bodies of water that move from uphill to downhill

• lakes, river and bays

• lakes, rivers, bays and the Atlantic Ocean

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Plants hold soil in place to reduce erosion, which helps in improving water quality.

• True

• False

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Which living organisms provide food, materials for shelter, habitats, and add oxygen to the air?

• Animals

• Plants

• Clothes

• Cars

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Which living organisms provide materials such as food, fiber, and leather?

• Animals

• Plants

• Clothes

• Cars

What is the name of the watershed that covers approximately half of Virginia’s land area?

• Gulf of Mexico

• North Carolina Sound

• Chesapeake Bay

The idea that what we do to our water and how it will affect people, plants, and animals can be summed up with the phrase...

• Reduce, reuse, recycle

• We all live downstream

• Save the water

• Down by the bay

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