Human impacts on water and other terms

Surface water is underground

• True
• False

A watershed is…

• Where surface water collects

• An underground layer of rock that holds water and transports it

• 17 miles away

• In the recharge zone where water can percolate

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Examples of a watershed:

• Streams and rivers

• Lakes

• Oceans

• All of the above!

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Percolation is…

• Slow passing of a liquid through rock or soil

• Runoff from melted snow

• The rapid passing through rock or soil

• Freezing ice between cracks in a rock

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A recharge zone is… (select all that apply)

• The area where water can percolate from into the soil

• Into an aquifer

• Into a lake

• On top of a mountain

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

• peninsula

• tributary

• groundwater

• watershed

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What is a watershed?

• A large body of water like an ocean or sea

• An area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet

• A type of water storage tank

• A small pond or lake

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Runoff is also…

• Melted snow

• Melted grass

• Melted rain

• Evaporated water

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Runoff picks up pollutants like…

• Plants

• Animals

• Fertilizer

• Dirt

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Fertilizer causes…

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