Entrance Ticket: Watershed

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.
• point source pollution.
• nonpointsource pollution.

Pollutants from a factory enter a stream or creek and travel to a river. River water tested with the pollutant found is called  

• point source pollution
  Available space for crops
• nonpoint source pollution.
• eutrophic pollution
• riparian pollution

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Rain soaks into the ground

• Infiltration
• Condensation
• Throughflow
• Surface runoff

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

pollution is.....................................................................

• chemicals or other things that have poisonous effects on our enviorment

• chemicals or other things that have posotive on our enviorment

• chemicals that flow to our water in run off

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A ___________________ is the area of land that collects runoff and channels it into a main river.

• rill
• gully
• stream channel
• watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Which of the following can pollute water?

• Moss
• Pesticides
• Seaweed
• Fish

Where are you most likely to find a watershed?

• In a lake

• On a mountain top

• At the bottom of a valley

• Everywhere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What definition BEST describes a watershed?

• An area where water infiltrates the soil

• An area where aquatic plants and animals thrive

• An area where snow melts and changes into liquid water

• An area that collects precipitation and drains it to the lowest point

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Concrete is an example of a(n)

• pervious surface

• impervious surface