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    A watershed is the area of land where all water that falls and drains off of it flows to a common outlet. Watersheds can vary in size from small local watersheds to large river basins. Key features of watersheds include drainage divides, which separate one watershed from another, and the outflow point, where all collected water exits the watershed. Watersheds are important because the quality and quantity of water in a river are determined by the land and activities within the watershed above the outflow point. The amount of water flowing in a stream is controlled by precipitation and other factors like infiltration, evaporation, transpiration, storage, and human water use.

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    A watershed is the area of land where all water that falls and drains off of it flows to a common outlet. Watersheds can vary in size from small local watersheds to large river basins. Key features of watersheds include drainage divides, which separate one watershed from another, and the outflow point, where all collected water exits the watershed. Watersheds are important because the quality and quantity of water in a river are determined by the land and activities within the watershed above the outflow point. The amount of water flowing in a stream is controlled by precipitation and other factors like infiltration, evaporation, transpiration, storage, and human water use.

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    A watershed is the area of land where all water that falls and drains off of it flows to a common outlet. Watersheds can vary in size from small local watersheds to large river basins. Key features of watersheds include drainage divides, which separate one watershed from another, and the outflow point, where all collected water exits the watershed. Watersheds are important because the quality and quantity of water in a river are determined by the land and activities within the watershed above the outflow point. The amount of water flowing in a stream is controlled by precipitation and other factors like infiltration, evaporation, transpiration, storage, and human water use.

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    A watershed is the area of land where all water that falls and drains off of it flows to a common outlet. Watersheds can vary in size from small local watersheds to large river basins. Key features of watersheds include drainage divides, which separate one watershed from another, and the outflow point, where all collected water exits the watershed. Watersheds are important because the quality and quantity of water in a river are determined by the land and activities within the watershed above the outflow point. The amount of water flowing in a stream is controlled by precipitation and other factors like infiltration, evaporation, transpiration, storage, and human water use.

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    What is a Watershed Webquest?

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    Access the following link and answer the questions:


    http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watershed.html

    1. What is a watershed? A watershed is the area of land where all of the water
    that falls in it and drains off of it goes to a common outlet

    2. Watersheds can vary in size. True/False true

    3. What type of watershed is shown in the map? national 8 digit hydrolic units

    4. The word watershed is sometimes used interchangeably with or .drainage basin or


    catchment

    5. Ridges and hills that separate two watersheds are called the . Drainage divide

    6. What does watershed consist of? Lakes, streams, resoirvoirs, wetlands

    Larger watersheds contain many smaller. It all depends on the

    outlflow
    point

    7.

    8. What is the outflow point? Where all of the collected water flows out
    1

    Why are watersheds important? The streamflow and water quality of a river are affected by the
    land above the outflow point which is the watershed.

    9.

    A Watershed is a precipitation collector:


    1. Name 6 factors that determine how much of the streamflow will flow by the monitoring site?
    Precipitation, infiltration, evaporation, transpiration, storage,
    water use by humans

    2. What is the greatest factor controlling streamflow? precipitation

    3. The amount of water that will infiltrate (soak in over time) depends on which four characteristics?
    Soil characteristics, soil saturation, land cover, slope of the land
    Water from rainfall returns to the atmosphere largely through .evaporation
    4.

    The root systems of plants absorb water from the surrounding soil in various amounts through the process
    of .transpiration
    5.

    6. Reservoirsstore water and increase the amount of water that evaporates and infiltrates.

    River Basins of N.C.:


    http://wwweenorthcarolina.org/riverbasins-interactive.html

    Choose one of the NC. River Basins and list out 10 facts about the one you
    investigate. Also include one picture that best represents a main feature of
    the River Basin.

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