Investigating Watersheds unit 1

Where is most of Earth's freshwater available for human use stored?

• Underground

• Atmosphere

• Lakes and rivers

• Ice caps and glaciers

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Why is it important to protect watersheds and conserve water resources?

• All living things depend on clean water

• Freshwater is abundant everywhere on Earth

• Water is hard to pollute and very easy to clean

• Water remains clean even if the land area around it is polluted.

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Some of the rivers that flow through the Roanoke River Watershed into the Roanoke River include Little Otter River, Big Otter River, Blackwater River, Pigg River, Dan River, Smith River and Banister River. These are the____________ of the Roanoke River.

• Tributaries

• divides

• drainage basins

• branches

The dotted lines marked y, separates the land that drains into river A from the land that drains into River B. It would be called a(n)

• Levee

• drainage basin

• river system

• divide

The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a

• Watershed

• Tributary

• Divide

• stream

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What is the relationship between the small river labeled X and River B

• River B is a tributary to River X

• River x is a tributary to River B

• There is no relationship between the 2 bodies of water

• River X takes water from River B

Which one of these is not one of the major watershed systems of Virginia?

• The North Carolina Sound

• The Tennessee Sound

• Chesapeake Bay

• The Gulf of Mexico

What is the largest Watershed in Virginia

• Atlantic Ocean Coastal

• Chesapeake Bay

• Pacific Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

Which does not affect the amount of water that runs into the watershed?

• land use

• precipitation

• climate

• sunlight

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What is water supply

• all the water on Earth

• All the water fit for human use

• all the water in the ocean

• All the freshwater on Earth

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