Review Unit 1 VA Watersheds & Unit 2 Protecting Our Watersheds

Select all (3) of the correct answers for describing a watershed.

• Also called a Drainage Basin

• A land area that water flows across on its way to a stream or river and then into a larger body of water like an ocean.

• The NC Sounds is the largest watershed in Virginia.

• The Chesapeake Bay is the largest watershed in Virginia.

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True or False: A tributary is a stream of water that feeds into a larger stream, river, bay, or ocean.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Which statement(s) (2) best DESCRIBE what an estuary is?

• Where freshwater from the streams and rivers mix with the salt water of the oceans and seas.

• Stream of water that feeds into a larger stream, river, bay, or ocean.

• Contains Brackish water.

• land area that water flows across on its way to a stream or river and then into a larger body of water like an ocean.

Water quality is the measurement of....

• H+ ions in water

• Water Pureness

• OH- ions in water

• Salt in water

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A measurement of the amount of dissolved salt in water is ​ (a)  

• Salinity
• Turbidity
• pH

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The term ​ (a)   is used to describe when aquatic environments become murky and clouded from runoff.

• Turbidity
• Dirty
• Freshwater
• Swamp water

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What is the form (solid, liquid, gas) of the element that fish get through their gills when in water? Hint: Human lungs also breath in this element just in a different form.

• Gaseous Oxygen (from the atmosphere)

• Dissolved Oxygen

• Gaseous Hydrogen (from atmosphere)

• Dissolved Hydrogen

When it rains and water flows over the land and into streams and lakes it is known as (a)  

• Runoff
• Watershed
• Precipitation
• Rainwater

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When it rains and water flows over the land and into streams and lakes it is known as (a)  

• Runoff
• Watershed
• Precipitation
• Rainwater

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Along with Virginia, which other states (5) make up the Chesapeake Bay watershed?​

• Delaware

• West Virginia

• Maryland

• New York

• Pennsylvania