Watershed vocabulary

The place where a river flows into a larger body of water

• Tributary

• Headwaters

• Source

• Mouth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is a tributary?

• a small stream that flows into a larger stream

• all the lakes in an area

• a map of the hills and valleys in an area

• a measurement of the amount of salt in water

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A ___________________ is the area of land that collects runoff and channels it into a main river.

• peninsula

• tributary

• groundwater

• watershed

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is another word for the source or the upper parts of a river?

• Headwaters

• Mouth

• Tributary

The name for where a stream begins

• Source

• Topography

• Tributary

• Mouth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What types of maps show the shape of the Earth's surface with contour lines at different elevations?

• Geologic

• Physical

• Index

• Topographic

An artificial lake used to store and collect water

• Riparian

• Riffle

• Reservoir

• Urbanization

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Any form of water particles, either liquid or solid, which falls from the atmosphere and reaches the ground

• Precipitation

• Reservoir

• Source

• Tributary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Something that causes undesirable environmental effects

• Pollution

• Pool

• Precipitation

• Storm drain

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The process by which a gas becomes a liquid

• Deposition

• Sublimation

• Ionization

• Condensation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4