6.8 Review #1 (Spiral of 6.1,6.5, and 6.6)

Label Virginia's 3 major watersheds.

a

b

c

North Carolina Sounds

Mississippi River

Chesapeake Bay

Big Stone Gap is a part of the __________________ watershed.

• Potomac
• James
• Rappahannock
• Clinch/Powell

All the water in Southwest Virginia eventually empties into the-

• Chesapeake Bay

• Atlantic Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• North Carolina Sounds

Select the three major watersheds of Virginia

• Chesapeake Bay
• North Carolina Sounds
• Mississippi River
• James
• York

Elizabeth lives in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. If Elizabeth pollutes the soil in her backyard, what water systems could be effected?

• Only the local creek
• Only the local creek and local river
• Only the local creek, local river, and Chesapeake Bay
• The local creek, local river, Chesapeake Bay, and Atlantic Ocean

Where is water most likely to become contaminated/polluted?

• near a construction site

• in a forest
• by a dam
• in a park

Virginia's largest watershed is the

• Mississippi River Watershed

• Chesapeake Bay Watershed

• North Carolina Sounds Watershed

Water flows from ​ (a)   to ​ (b)   elevation

• high
• low

An area of land that drains into a body of water is a

• wetlands

• watershed

• ecosystem

• environment

Match the following

• living organisms

• ecosystem

• biotic factors + abiotic factors

• abiotic factors

• nonliving things

• biotic factors