Watershed Vocabulary

Where is groundwater held?

• pipes

• barrel

• aquifer

• tank

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What is a watershed?

• Something you put on your car windows when it rains

• Area of land where water drains downhill to the lowest point

• Where water collects underground

• The ocean and any estuaries

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Where is surface water found?

• lakes, streams, ponds, rivers, oceans

• wastewater facilities

• aquifers

• clouds

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The movement of rainwater over land is called runoff. How could this pollute a watershed?

• Acid rain

• Animals drink from

• It could carry fertilizer from farmlands

• It adds water to rivers

What type of rock is necessary for water to PASS THROUGH?

• Permeable

• Metamorphic

• Porous

• Igneous

What is Point Source Pollution (PSP) ?

• When the source is unidentifiable

• When you can trace the pollution directly back to its source

When fertilizers enter surface water, they cause problems in the watershed by -

• increasing the amount of nutrients available to fish in lakes and streams.

• raising the water level in nearby rivers to levels leading to flooding.

• clogging narrow streams and preventing water from flowing properly.

• polluting habitats and causing excess algae growth

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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.

• non-point source pollution.

• point source pollution.

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What is surface water?

• Water inside a barrel

• Water that collects on the surface such as ponds, lakes, and run-off.

• Water found in your driveway only

• Water in a waterfall

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