Watersheds

Can runoff pick up sediments and pollutants?

• Yes

• No

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What is a watershed?

• A bay

• land that water runoff flows across to a stream lake or wetland

• Land that water runs through to a stream lake or wetland

• Land that water destroys by the flow of water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is an area of high elevation that separates watersheds?

• Tiff line

• Ridge line

• Hill

• Divide

Appalachian mountains split up watersheds directing water

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What are Virginias watersheds?

• Chesapeake bay (Northeast)

• Chesapeake bay (south west)

• Mississippi River (west)

• Gulf of Mexico (west)

• North Carolina sounds (north)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

label

• 1. Chesapeake bay

• 1. Carolina sounds

• 2. Mississippi River

• 2. Gulf of Mexico

• 3. North Carolina Sounds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

River system: all of the tributaries that drain a watershed

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The draining away of water and substances carried in it from a surface:

• River system

• Runoff

• Watershed

• Food plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Wide, Flat, border areas onto which water spills out at times of high flow:

• Salinity

• Runoff

• Food plain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

what is the largest contributor of fresh water to the bay?

• Suseehkwa River

• Susquehanna River

• James River

• Delaware