Watershed

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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What is a partially enclosed body of water that has a mixture of salt water from the ocean and fresh water from rivers and streams?

• Estuary
• Watershed
• Tributary
• Bay

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What is all the water that runs off the surface of the land and washes into rivers, streams, and other waterways called?

• Runoff
• Storm Drain
• Surface Water
• Tributary

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What is a stream or river that feeds into a larger body of water?

• Tributary
• Estuary
• Bay
• Watershed

The boundaries of a watershed are determined by ___________

• Elevation

• Soil type

• The amount of water that flows

• The kinds of organisms found in the area

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All water below the surface of land is called__________.

• water table

• watershed

• groundwater

• runoff

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The process where water or irrigation runs over land and seeps into the ground, or flows into streams or oceans.

• water cycle

• runoff

• precipitation

• evaporation

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A divide is 

• well in which water rises because of pressure
• Forms the boundaries of a watershed
• type of hot spring from which the water periodically erupts
• place where groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in the rock

A loop like bend in the course of a river.

• meander
• oxbow lake
• alluvial fan
• delta

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The sides of a river where it floods during high flows of water

• Flood Plain

• Run Off

• Sidelines

• Watershed

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