Watersheds

What is another word for watershed.

• drainage basin

• lake

• stream

• divide

What is a watershed?

• an area where there are not a lot of trees and lots of floodplains

• all the major rivers in the USA

• •An area of land in which all the water that enters it, drains into a common body of water

• process by which water cycles through the Earth

How is a watershed defined?

• by inhabiting biotic factors

• Gravity, enables rivers to flow

• by the length of the rivers within

• Topography, highest point

How would you describe a divide?

• a large expanse of trees

• a river crossing a valley within a watershed

• Highest point of an area that separates two watersheds

• Mountain range

Headwaters are the....

• stream or tributary that forms the source of the watershed

• rough rapids on the transition zone of the watershed

Select all the aquatic features of a watershed.

• Delta

• Tributary

• Aquifer

• Floodplain

Select all the terrestrial features of a watershed.

• Transition Zone

• Source Zone

• Floodplain

• Headwaters

How are watersheds characterized?

• area, vegetation, soil type, slope,

• area, soil type, size of tributaries, vegetation

• soil type, slope, source zone, vegetation

• Source zone, transition zone, headwaters, area

What are two things that happen to rainfall, specifically having to do with its function within the watershed?

• runs downhill across the land to join a river

• turns to ice

• evaporates

• Percolates to join groundwater

Why is it important to know the soil type and type of vegetation within a watershed?

• Because it is what it is

• Just cause it is important

• To determine the type and distribution of available nutrients in the soil of the area

• Soil type impacts whether water will runoff or infiltrate