Watershed

The health of an ecosystem is directly related to the...

• Air Quality

• Water Quality

• Amount of animals in the area

• Amount of food in the area

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Which statement about water pollution is TRUE?

• Pollution only affects surface water.

• Pollution cannot be dissolved in water.

• Pollution affects both surface and groundwater.

• Pollution cannot travel through soil to groundwater.

Water occurring in a stream, lake, river, reservoir, estuary, wetland or the ocean.

• Waterhsed

• Drainage Divide

• Surface Water

• Ground Water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

This word describes when rock has spaces that allows water to move through

• Permeable

• Impermeable

• Surface Water

• Drainage Divide

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

• Tributary

• Headwaters

• River system

• Watershed

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Rapid growth of algae in a pond is often the result of...

• excess nutrients from fertilizer runoff

• loss of habitat due to commercial building

• clogged river tributaries entering a lake

• flooding that causes water levels to rise

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Watersheds are important because they

• prevent surface runoff

• increase the soils pore space

• prevents floods and provides fresh water

• removes salt from ocean water

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Overflow during a heavy rainstorm from a wastewater treatment plant would result in...

• weakened housing foundations

• polluted runoff into nearby ponds

• flooding in the local aquifer

• over-treated drinking water

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An industrial company wants to build a company in the watershed where a village exists. In order to minimize the potential of pollution to the village, where should the build the company?

• at the highest point of the watershed

• downstream from the village

• closest to a freshwater stream or river

• nearest to the main street of the village

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

A layer of porous rock that allows water to flow through.

• ground water

• aquifer

• point source

• subsidence

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4