Watershed Virtual Lab

Question 1

What is a Watershed?

Answer 1

An area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.

Question 2

Where do water impairments come from?

Answer 2

Runoff, Water Discharge, & Breakdown of water infrastructure sewers or pipes

Question 3

What is a Runoff?

Answer 3

The draining away of water (or substances carried in it) from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure
Example:
-The overflow of water that drains off of your driveway

Question 4

What does PCB mean?

Answer 4

Physics, Chemistry, & Biology

Question 5

What does PCB cause?

Answer 5

Health Risks

Question 6

How are Surface Currents are caused?

Answer 6

Global Winds & Coriolis Effect

Question 7

_____are large streams of moving water that flow through the oceans.

Answer 7

Currents

Question 8

What is a warm Front?

Answer 8

Warm air mass pushes cold air mass then rises down

Question 8

What is a warm Front?

Answer 8

Warm air mass pushes cold air mass then rises down

Question 9

Cold front?

Answer 9

Cold air mass air pushes warm air mass forcing the warm air to rise quickly

Question 10

What is a Stationary Front?

Answer 10

When warm air and cold air masses meet and neither one is strong enough to move the other

Question 11

What is a Occluded Front?

Answer 11

When it forms when a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses

Question 12

What is a Cumulus cloud?

Answer 12

A large, white, puffy cloud, that is fair scattered from each other with heavy rain and storms

Question 13

What is a Cirrus Cloud?

Answer 13

A thin, wispy cloud in the sky with a broad coverage in the sky with fair weather or a change of weather may occur

Question 14

What is a Stratus Cloud?

Answer 14

A layered, and broad coverage in the sky with light rain and a warm front

Question 15

What does a Cumulonimbus Cloud mean?

Answer 15

A tall, dark grey, Billowing clouds, with a stormy weather

Question 16

What is a Continental Polar (cP)?

Answer 16

A land near the poles with a cold and dry feeling

Question 17

What is a Maritime Tropical (mT)?

Answer 17

Located near the equator near the water with a warm and humid feeling

Question 18

What is a Maritime Polar (mT)?

Answer 18

Located near the equator over the water with a cold and moist feeling

Question 19

What does a Continental Tropical mean (cT)?

Answer 19

Located near the equator over the land with a warm and dry feeling

Question 20

What is a Barometer?

Answer 20

A instrument that measures air pressure

Question 21

What is a Anemometer?

Answer 21

A instrument that measures wind speed

Question 22

What is a Hygrometer?

Answer 22

A instrument that measures Humidity

Question 23

What is Evaporation?

Answer 23

The Sun’s radiation causes liquid water on Earth’s surface to turn into a gas called water vapor, which then rises into the atmosphere because it is less dense

Question 24

What is a Condensation?

Answer 24

A water vapor cools and turns back into liquid forming clouds

Question 25

What is Preciptation?

Answer 25

When water falls from clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet, and hail

Question 26

What is Transpiration?

Answer 26

When water is released from pores in a plant leaves, then changes to vapor

Question 27

What is Infiltration?

Answer 27

When water sinks to the ground it filters to the underground aquifers and streams / water table

Question 28

What is a Runoff?

Answer 28

When water runs off Earth’s surface into lakes, ponds, and rivers

Question 29

How is a Water Cycle is caused in order?

Answer 29

From Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff, Infiltration, and Transportation

Question 30

How are Tornadoes caused?

Answer 30

From associated Hail, Occurs in Central areas or flat areas, occurs around spring

Question 31

How are Hurricanes caused?

Answer 31

Occurs in the Coastal areas and with tropical and subtropical areas

Question 32

How are Tornadoes and Hurricanes are caused?

Answer 32

In an area that has warm, moist air rises rapidly