What Is A Watershed?

What is a watershed?

• all of the land that drains into the same body of water

• a shed that holds water

Which of the following bodies of water was NOT mentioned in the video as being part of a watershed?

• oceans

• wetlands

• rivers

• lakes

Which statement is TRUE?

• Any land, including the school parking lot, is part of our watershed.

• Only land near a body of water is part of our watershed.

Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a place water can travel?

• into the soil

• into the atmosphere

• in the groundwater

• in creeks and streams

Watersheds tend to collect water in an area and then...

• the water drains into the nearest body of water

• immediately store it where it collects

Eventually water ends up in the...

• desert 

• ocean

Everyone in the world lives in a watershed.

• True

• False