Watershed Vocab Quiz

An area where all water runoff drains into a single body of water. The land that water flows across or under on its way to a river

• non-point pollution

• River Basin/Watershed

• Tributary

• Contamination

A stream or river that flows into a larger river

• Estuary
• Flood Plain

• River Basin/Watershed

• Tributary

Pollution that comes from a specific site

• Point source pollution

• non-point pollution

• contamination

• pollutant

Water pollution that does not have a specific point of origin

• estuary

• tributary

• contaminant

• non-point pollution

A habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.

• estuary

• tributary

• Watershed

• River Basin

The source of a river

• head water

• estuary

• river basin

• watershed

The introduction of dangerous chemicals, disease, or infectious materials.

• contamination

• contaminant

• pollutant

• water quality

The chemical, biological, and physical status of a body of water

• water quality

• contaminant

• pollutant

• tributary

A material found in air, water, or soil that is harmful to humans or other organisms

• Pollutant

• Contaminant

• Contamination

• Estuary

A substance that pollutes or poisons; makes impure

• contaminant

• pollutant

• water quality

• contamination