Watersheds/Water Quality

Question 1

What category do Animals belong to? (Abiotic, or Biotic)

Answer 1

Biotic

Question 2

What category does Soil belong to? (Abiotic, or Biotic)

Answer 2

Abiotic

Question 3

What does Abiotic mean?

Answer 3

Nonliving things in an environment

Question 4

What does Biotic mean?

Answer 4

Living or once living things in an environment

Question 5

What determines an ecosystem type?

Answer 5

Abiotic Factors, Distribution to plants and people, and the usage of land.

Question 6

What do Abiotic Factors include?

Answer 6

Water supply, Topography, landforms, geology, soils, sunlight and air quality, and oxygen availability.

Question 7

The _______ of an ecosystem is directly related to the water quality.

Answer 7

Health

Question 8

_______ _______ describes the condition of the water including chemical, physical, and biological characteristics.

Answer 8

Water Quality

Question 9

We determine water quality by how much water is useful for drinking, ______, cleaning, or swimming.

Answer 9

Cooking

Question 10

_______ from rain or groundwater in aquifers picks up the “characteristics” of the land area it travels across or through.

Answer 10

Runoff

Question 11

If the land area is polluted, those pollutants are moved by the water through the _______

Answer 11

Ecosystems

Question 12

What is a Watershed?

Answer 12

A Watershed is an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel.

Question 13

Where are watersheds?

Answer 13

In mountains, cities, forests, farms, anywhere where there is land.

Question 14

What makes up a river system?

Answer 14

A river and all its tributaries.

Question 15

What are tributaries?

Answer 15

Smaller streams and rivers that feed into a main river.

Question 16

Why do tributaries flow toward the main river following a downhill path?

Answer 16

The pull of gravity.

Question 17

Why do we need to take care of our watersheds?

Answer 17

So that the water that runs off the land leads to clean water too.

Question 18

What is an example of a divide?

Answer 18

Hills or Mountains

Question 19

Why does the water that flows off the land end up in different rivers and streams?

Answer 19

Because streams and rivers on each side of each side of the divide flow in different directions.

Question 20

How many watersheds does VA (Virginia) have?

Answer 20

14 Watersheds in total.

Question 21

What are the 3 watersheds near us called?

Answer 21

Chesapeake Bay watershed
James River watershed
York River watershed

Question 22

What watershed are we part of?

Answer 22

The Chesapeake Bay watershed. (And Chesapeake Bay Coastal)

Question 23

How many main bodies of water do watershed systems lead to in VA?

Answer 23

3

Question 24

What 3 main bodies of water does watershed systems lead to in VA?

Answer 24

Chesapeake Bay (then Atlantic Ocean)
The North Carolina Sound
The Gulf Of Mexico

Question 25

What depends on where the water divides?

Answer 25

Where the water leads.

Question 26

What is a wetland?

Answer 26

An area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.

Question 27

Wetlands form in places where _____ is trapped in low areas or where groundwater seeps onto the surface of land.

Answer 27

Water

Question 28

The _____ of wetlands can be very small or very large. (covers thousands of square miles)

Answer 28

Size

Question 29

Some wetlands fill up with water during the _____ and can dry up during the Summer.

Answer 29

Spring

Question 30

Some wetlands can be covered with water all _____ round.

Answer 30

Year

Question 31

What are marshes?

Answer 31

Grassy areas covered by a shallow layer or stream of water.

Question 32

What do marshes contain?

Answer 32

Cattails, Rushes, Tule, and other tall grass-like plants.

Question 33

What are swamps?

Answer 33

look like a flooded forest, with trees and shrubs growing in the water.

Question 34

Where are most swamps located?

Answer 34

South, in the warm, humid climate.

Question 35

What are bogs?

Answer 35

found in cooler, northern states, form in depressions left by melting ice sheets.

Question 36

Water is usually ______ and contains many mosses.

Answer 36

Acidic

Question 37

What do Coastal Wetlands usually contain?

Answer 37

Both fresh, and salt water.

Question 38

What are Salt Marshes?

Answer 38

are found along both coasts of the U.S. Contain tall, strong grasses the grow in a rich muddy bottom.

Question 39

What are mangrove forests?

Answer 39

are found along the central and southern coasts of Florida. Contain short trees with thick roots.

Question 40

Wetlands provide ______ for many living things because of its sheltered waters and rich supply of nutrients.

Answer 40

Habitats.

Question 41

______-_______ residents of wetlands include: frogs, salamanders, turtles, racoons, muskrats, birds, and many insects.

Answer 41

Year-Round

Question 42

Temporary residents include Ducks, _____ and other waterfowl.

Answer 42

Geese

Question 43

These animals stop at wetlands on their way to or from their ______ homes.

Answer 43

Winter

Question 44

Before the _______'s many farmers thought of wetlands as a _______.

Answer 44

1970's "Wasteland"

Question 45

They would drain and fill in wetlands to make ________

Answer 45

Farmlands

Question 46

Why are wetlands important?

Answer 46

-Provide natural water filtration (waste material filter out) -Traps silt and mud -control flooding by absorbing extra runoff from heavy rains

Question 47

Water is the key to these wetlands in _______

Answer 47

Florida

Question 48

The _______ provide habitats for many rare or endangered species.

Answer 48

Everglades

Question 49

Nearby farming has introduced harmful ______ to the Everglades.

Answer 49

Chemicals

Question 50

Building roads and homes has also been ______

Answer 50

Harmful

Question 51

A new threat has developed _______ (People releasing pets that have gotten too big!)

Answer 51

Pythons

Question 52

What is an estuary?

Answer 52

An estuary is where a river meets the sea.

Question 53

Many _____ and ______ species thrive in estuaries.

Answer 53

Plant Animal

Question 54

Estuaries are good places to build _______

Answer 54

Communities

Question 55

Estuaries have been _______

Answer 55

Overfished

Question 56

The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary where fresh and _______ meet and are mixed by sides.

Answer 56

Saltwater

Question 57

Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the _______ United States and one of the most productive

Answer 57

Contiguous

Question 58

What is the pH?

Answer 58

The measure of how Acidic or basic the substance (water) is.

Question 59

What is the salinity?

Answer 59

The amount of dissolved salts in the water.

Question 60

What is the Turbidity?

Answer 60

The clarity (how clear it looks) of the water.

Question 61

What is Coliform?

Answer 61

The bacteria found in the water (environment)