Water?

Question 1

What is a watershed?

Answer 1

A land area that channels rainfall and snowmelt into creeks, streams, and rivers, then eventually to outflow points such as reservoirs, bays, and oceans.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/watershed.html

Question 2

What is a wetland?

Answer 2

Wetlands are lands that are wet. Wetlands are areas where water covers the soil, or is present near the surface of the soil all year or for varying periods of time during the year, including during the growing seasons.

https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/what-wetland

Question 3

94% of wetlands in the U.S. belong to this category

Answer 3

non-tidal wetlands

Question 4

What is the relationship between a Marsh and Wetland

Answer 4

Marshes are wetlands which are frequently or continually inundated with water

https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/classification-and-types-wetlands#undefined

Question 5

What is a salt marsh

Answer 5

A type of coastal wetland which is flooded and drained by salt water brought in by the tides

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/saltmarsh.html

Question 6

What is irrigation?

Answer 6

Any method to add water to land or plants

Question 7

What is an irrigation district?

Answer 7

In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the landowners or citizen

Question 8

What is a river basin

Answer 8

A river basin is an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.