6.8 Test Review

Which example is NOT a value of a wetland?

• Wetlands provide shelter and nutrients for migratory birds.

• Wetlands form new water molecules that can be used for drinking.

• Wetlands reduce floods to communities downstream.

• Wetlands remove nutrients from waste water.

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Rappahannock River and all of its tributaries make up the Rappahannock -

• Watershed

• Reservoir

• River System

• Drainage Basin

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Jonie lives in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. If she pollutes the soil in her back yard, what water system could be affected?

• Only the Chesapeake Bay

• Only the local creek

• Only the local creek and local river

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

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The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a -

• Watershed

• Tributary

• Divide

• Stream

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The dotted line marked Y, separates the land that drains into River A from the land that drains into River B. It would be called a(n)–

• levee

• drainage basin

• river system

• divide

Select all the abiotic factors that could affect an ecosystem.

• A factory

• Sunlight

• Soil/Dirt

• Animals

• Trees

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The land that water flows across or through on its way to a body of water is called -

• An estuary

• An ecosystem

• A watershed

• A wetland

Wetlands provide habitats for many living things because of their sheltered waters and -

• thick layer of mud.

• large supply of nutrients.

• lack of insects.

• ability to prevent floods.

Why are estuarine waters of the Chesapeake Bay important for commercial fishing and shellfish harvesting?

• This is the safest place to fish.

• There are more fish in estuarine water.

• This is the only place where harvesting of fish is allowed.

• Many species of fish are dependent on estuaries during some part of their life cycles.

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Washing away of the land by the water as it flows by is called -

• groundwater

• deposition

• sediment

• erosion

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