Watershed Review

Match the following

• Water dripping through rock layers

• Permeable

• Water running down on the surface of the Earth

• Percolation

• Water is able to flow through

• Runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is a watershed?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Where does your drinking water come from?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

What is the risk that your drinking water could run out or become contaminated?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What can you do to help protect your drinking water supply?

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What happened when it “rained” on your model made from the crumpled paper as shown?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

How do you think this aquifer is affected by human activity?

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

About ​ (a)   of Earth’s surface is covered with water.

• 70%
• 3%
• 30%

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Like its name suggests, ​ (a)   is water found in the ground. Groundwater is stored in underground reservoirs called ​ (b)   .

• groundwater
• aquifers
• surface water
• storage tanks
• wells

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Chemicals and other pollutants that humans release into a watershed can work their way down into an ​ (a)   . Pollutants can trickle through the porous rock and contaminate the groundwater. Because the water is ​ (b)   , it can be very difficult to remove contamination from groundwater.

• aquifer
• underground
• above groun
• surface water
• lake
• river

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4