Surface and Groundwater Review

What are some ways that watersheds can be polluted? (select all that apply)

• sewers emptying into rivers

• oil leaking

• littering

• washing car

• picking up after pets

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Match the following

• surface water

• streams, rivers, lakes, ponds, oceans

• fertilizers and pesticides

• water that soaks into and collects under the ground

• groundwater

• water traveling over the land surface before reaching a stream

• runoff

• common farming pollutants

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

An area of land where the surface water and ground water drain into a particular body of water.

• aquifer
• watershed
• subsidence
• divide

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is the process of water droplets in clouds becoming heavy and falling back to earth?

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

• transpiration

____________ is water from precipitation that moves across the ground surface before ending up in a stream, creek, or bayou.

• watershed

• groundwater

• runoff

• aquifer

Water occurring in a stream, lake, river, reservoir, estuary, wetland or the ocean.

• Waterhsed

• Drainage Divide

• Surface Water

• Ground Water

A barrier, such as a ridge, hill or mountain, separating one watershed land area from another.

• Runoff

• Divide (or watershed boundary)

• Aquifer

• Permeable

Water that collects in cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers.

• Groundwater

• Surface Water

• Permeable

• Impermeable

What is another word to describe the water found in an estuary like the Chesapeake Bay?

• Organic
• Brackish
• Polluted
• Clear

What is all the water that runs off the surface of the land and washes into rivers, streams, and other waterways called?

• Runoff
• Storm Drain
• Surface Water
• Tributary

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4