Water Sheds

The image shows various stages in the water cycle. During which stage does water flow back towards the sea as runoff?

• W

• X

• Y

• Z

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What could be an easy way to prevent non-point source pollution?

• let someone else wash your car

• keep businesses and industries from disposing of hazardous chemicals

• farmers can make sure that waste treatment tanks do not spill or leak into the groundwater

• don't use too much fertilizer on your yard- when it rains, there won't be any excess to run off into a storm drain

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An area of land where all streams/rivers flow toward the same body of water is called a

• watershed

• floodplain

• delta

• confluence

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The area of land drained by a river and all of its tributaries is a ______.

• flood plain

• desert

• watershed

• forest

What is a watershed?

• A storage area for water

• An area that drains water into a specific body of water

• A dry land area

• A mountain range

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What is a watershed?

• Land that collects and channels water froma small body of water to a larger body of water

• the shape of the land determined by elevation

• A natural stream of water of considerable  volume

• a river and all its tributaries

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Why is gravity a factor in watersheds? 

• it causes the water to flow away from a watershed

• it causes the water to flow into and through a watershed

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Water held underground in the soil or in the pores and crevices in rock.

• groundwater

• Earth

• surface runoff

• reservoir

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A large artificial lake used as a source of water supply. Made by humans.

• Reservoir

• Infiltration

• Glacier

• Condensation

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The downward movement of water through the soil

• Infiltration

• Groundwater

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

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