Watershed Vocab Quiz

A nonliving thing that affects the ecosystem

• Abiotic Factor

• Subsidence

• Biotic Factor

• Drainage Divide

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An area of permeable rock underground that holds or transmits groundwater; pumps are used to retrieve water from these areas

• Floodplain

• Aquifer

• Runoff

• Saturation Zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

A living thing that affects the ecosystem

• Abiotic Factor

• Drainage Divide

• Biotic Factor

• Estuary

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A geographical barrier, such as a ridge, hill, or mountain, separating one watershed land area from another

• Aquifer

• Saturation Zone

• Drainage Divide

• Tributary

The boundary between freshwater rivers and streams and the saltwater ocean

• Tributary

• Estuary

• Groundwater

• Permeable Rock

Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers

• Surface Water

• Point Source Pollution

• Groundwater

• Watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Pollutants introduced into surface water or groundwater that DO NOT have a specific source location. Example: water flowing over a lawn that has been fertilized and then into a drain

• River

• Aquifer

• Saturation Zone

• Nonpoint Source Pollution

Rock or rocky material that water can flow through

• Point Source Pollution

• Nonpoint Source Pollution

• Permeable Rock

• Estuary

A single identifiable and localized source of water pollution, such as wastewater discharge into a stream

• Saturation Zone

• Point Source Pollution

• Aquifer

• Estuary

Area below the water table where all spaces not filled with solid material fill with water

• Subsidence

• Runoff

• Saturation Zone

• Aquifer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4