areas of high elevation that separate watersheds

the area of land that drains into a body of water

a smaller stream that flows into a major river

the place where a river or stream begins.

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1
Water that flows from your armpits
Perspiration
Runoff
Infiltration
Transpiration
2
The movement of water from plants into the atomsphere
Runoff
Transpiration
Perspiration
Infiltration
3
What process is shown in the photo?
Runoff
Transpiration
Infiltration
Perspiration
4
What Sub-Watershed on the map is our school in?
Niagara River
Cayuga Creek
Ellicott Creek
Smoke Creek
5
Water that flows across the top of the soil into lakes, rivers and streams.
Infiltration
Perspiration
Transpiration
Runoff
6
A divide is
smaller stream emptying into a larger stream
a low area across the floodplain
a parcel of land
areas of high elevation that separate watersheds
7
What is a watershed
the water that drains into an area of land
a shed full of water
all the lakes and ponds in one area
the area of land that drains into a body of water
8
What is a tributary?
the area of land that contributes water to a river system
a smaller stream that flows into a major river
a larger stream that flows into a smaller river
water that flows over Earth’s surface
9
True or false, everyone lives in a watershed
True
False
10
Headwaters are
where a river empties into another large body of water.
the place where a river or stream begins.
the widest part of the river.
the deepest part of the river.
11
What process is shown in the photo?
Evaporation
Precipitation
Condensation
Sublimation
12
The movement of water from the surface of the soil to lower layers of soil
Infiltration
Perspiration
Runoff
Transpiration
13
the process in which water vapor is cooled and forms liquid water
Evaporation
Precipitation
Sublimation
Condensation
14
What Watershed do we live in?
Great Lakes Watershed
Allegheny River Watershed
Mississippi River Watershed
Hudson River Watershed
15
How does water flow?
Uphill
Side to side
Downhill
On a flat surface
16
What process is shown in the photo?
Infiltration
Transpiration
Runoff
Perspiration
17
Watershed divides are always mountain ranges?
False
True
18
What is NOT another word for a divide?
Watershed boundary
Ridgeline
Confluence
Drainage divide
19
All rain on the west side of the Continental Divide drains to the
Pacific Ocean
Indian Ocean
Arctic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean

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