Watersheds

Which would increase the amount of runoff you get?

• Vegetation

• More plants

• Urban Development (more pavement)

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

What do you call the land that water flows across, under, and through on its way to a body of water?

• Tributary
• River system
• Headwaters
• Watershed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

___________________ picks up pollutants and washes animal wastes, fertilizers, and pesticides, into storm drains and rivers.

• Runoff

• Peak flow

• Groundwater

• Municipal sewage

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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

• storm drains

• streams and rivers

• oceans

• All of these choices

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

What is an area of higher elevation that separates watersheds?

• Estuary

• Ridgeline/Divide

• Wetland

• Tributaries

What is Point Source Pollution?

• When you cannot trace the direct source of pollution

• When you can trace the point of the source

Pesticides and fertilizers from a farm enter a stream or creek and travel to a larger river. The river water is tested and it is polluted. This is.....

• point source pollution

• nonpoint source pollution.

• eutrophic pollution

• riparian pollution

A industrial powerplant dumps its heated wastewater straight from a pipe into a stream. This is an example of -

• eutrophic pollution
  over-treated drinking water.
• riparian pollution
  flooding in the local aquifer.
• point source pollution.
• nonpointsource pollution.

Smaller streams and creeks that feed into larger rivers are called-

• wetlands

• tributaries

• swamps

• estuaries

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A body of water composed of a mixture of both salt and freshwater (brackish water).

• estuary

• fen

• bog

• river

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4