Watersheds

This image shows a(n)

• Aquifer

• Pollution Chart

• Vacation Home

• Watershed

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This is a picture of

• Resort Life

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Fishing Paradise

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Which statement below best describes the image

• Surface water can be polluted by runoff.

• Groundwater can be polluted by leaking storage tanks.

• A broken well that leads to pollution of groundwater.

• The underground water cycle relies on transpiration.

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This image represents a watershed. If a farmer where to continually over-fertilize his fields, where could the extra fertilizer finally settle?

• It will stay on his property

• It will make his neighbors property nice

• It will keep traveling to the ocean

• There is no such thing as too much fertilizer

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Which letter on the image best represents a the water table?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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The image shows four different wells. Which well would dry up first if there was a drought?

• A

• B

• C

• D

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All water eventually empties into

• an ocean

• a river

• the ground

• a lake

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An area of land that drains to a particular river, lake, bay, or other body of water.

• Tributary

• Wetland

• Divide

• Watershed

All bodies of fresh water, salt water, ice, and snow that are found above ground

• Groundwater

• Surface water

• Runoff

• Swimming pool

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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

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