Weather and Human Impact on Water Review

What definition best describes a watershed?

• An area where water infiltrates soil

• An area where aquatic plants live and thrive

• An area where snow melts and changes the liquid into water

• an area that collects precipitation and drains it to the lowest point

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Which statement about water pollution is true?

• pollution affects only the surgace of the water

• pollution cannot be dissolved in water

• pollution impacts both surface water and groundwater

• pollution cannot travel through soil to groundwater

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As water flows it picks up...

• fertilizers, oils and pesticides

• sugar and spice and everything nice

• sunshine, sugar, and carbon dioxide

• oxygen and carbon dioxide

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Watersheds are the areas that drain all the water that falls on land and are vital to life because they support

• habitats

• ponds

• clouds

• rainbows

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Fertilizer can runoff land into water and cause some aquatic plants to

• grow out of control

• do nothing

• pack their bags and move away

• file a complaint with the EPA

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How can you help protect watersheds (select ALL correct answers!)

• clean up after your pet

• stop littering

• reduce amount of fertilizers and pesticides

• nothing

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Water travels to the lowest point because of a powerful force called

• gravity

• love

• Spidey Sense

• Riparian

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Wastes produced by agriculture, households, industry, mining, and other human activities can end up in ______________.

• groundwater
• streams and rivers
• oceans
• All of these choices

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Water found in the space between rock and particles below the Earth's surface is...

• Surface Water

• Groundwater

• Watershed

• Aquifer

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Streams, rivers, and lakes are an example of...

• Surface Water

• Groundwater

• Watershed

• Aquifer

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