Watersheds Unit: Part 1 Question Preview (ID: 61662)


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End of the river
a) Source
b) Mouth
c) Tributary
d) Divide

Saltwater, freshwater, brackish water
a) Types of water in wetlands
b) Biotic factor
c) Abiotic factor
d) Salinity

Has multiple entry ways into the watershed. You don't know where the pollution is coming from.
a) Point source
b) Nonpoint source
c)
d)

Beginning or start of the river
a) Source
b) Mouth
c) Watershed
d) Tributary

Has only one entry way into the watershed. You can point to where the pollution is coming from.
a) Point source
b) Nonpoint source
c)
d)

An underground lake where water builds up between rock layers
a) Watershed
b) Divide
c) Tributary
d) Aquifer

A ridgeline, mountain, or high point that causes water to go one way or another in a watershed. It separates watersheds.
a) Divide
b) Groundwater
c) Collection
d) Aquifer

Water that runs underground
a) Divide
b) Groundwater
c) Watershed
d) Aquifer

Smaller streams and rivers that flow into a larger stream, river, or body of water
a) Divide
b) Tributary
c) Groundwater
d) Aquifer

Virginia's 3 major watersheds
a) Mississippi River, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound
b) Chesapeake Bay, North Carolina Sound, Gulf of Mexico
c) Puget Sound, San Francisco Bay, Gulf of Mexico
d) Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay, Gulf of Mexico

Our watershed address
a) Potomac River -- Chesapeake Bay -- Gulf of Mexico -- Atlantic Ocean
b) Chesapeake Bay -- Potomac River -- Atlantic Ocean -- Bull Run Creek
c) Bull Run Creek -- Potomac River -- Chesapeake Bay -- Atlantic Ocean
d) Bull Run Creek -- Chesapeake Bay -- Potomac River -- Atlantic Ocean

Name of watershed we live in
a) North Carolina Sound
b) Gulf of Mexico
c) Chesapeake Bay
d) Boston Harbor

Water soaking into the ground
a) Evaporation
b) Condensation
c) Precipitation
d) Infiltration

An area of land that drains into a river system
a) Infiltration
b) Watershed
c) Groundwater
d) Surface water

Liquid water becoming water vapor.
a) Condensation
b) Evaporation
c) Collection
d) Run off

Water gathering or accumulating to form a body of water, like a pond or lake.
a) Evaporation
b) Condensation
c) Collection
d) Infiltration

Any water traveling above or below the surface of the Earth.
a) Condensation
b) Precipitation
c) Run off
d) Collection

Any form of water falling from the sky
a) Condensation
b) Precipitation
c) Run off
d) Collection

Water vapor turning into liquid water. Forms clouds.
a) Condensation
b) Precipitation
c) Run off
d) Collection

Bays, lagoons, inlets, sounds, harbors
a) Wetlands
b) Estuaries
c) Swamp
d) Divide

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