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    The document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to complete a webquest about watersheds. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains all water to a common outlet. It also notes that watersheds can vary in size and consist of surface water and groundwater. The webquest asks the reader to access a link about watersheds and answer questions about watershed mapping, factors influencing streamflow, and the processes of infiltration, evaporation, and transpiration. It further asks the reader to investigate one of North Carolina's river basins and provide 10 facts about that specific basin.

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    The document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to complete a webquest about watersheds. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains all water to a common outlet. It also notes that watersheds can vary in size and consist of surface water and groundwater. The webquest asks the reader to access a link about watersheds and answer questions about watershed mapping, factors influencing streamflow, and the processes of infiltration, evaporation, and transpiration. It further asks the reader to investigate one of North Carolina's river basins and provide 10 facts about that specific basin.

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    The document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to complete a webquest about watersheds. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains all water to a common outlet. It also notes that watersheds can vary in size and consist of surface water and groundwater. The webquest asks the reader to access a link about watersheds and answer questions about watershed mapping, factors influencing streamflow, and the processes of infiltration, evaporation, and transpiration. It further asks the reader to investigate one of North Carolina's river basins and provide 10 facts about that specific basin.

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    The document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to complete a webquest about watersheds. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains all water to a common outlet. It also notes that watersheds can vary in size and consist of surface water and groundwater. The webquest asks the reader to access a link about watersheds and answer questions about watershed mapping, factors influencing streamflow, and the processes of infiltration, evaporation, and transpiration. It further asks the reader to investigate one of North Carolina's river basins and provide 10 facts about that specific basin.

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    What is a Watershed Webquest?

    Name:

    Access the following link and answer the questions:


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

    1. What is a watershed?
    Area of land that drains all the water into a common outlet.
    2. Watersheds can vary in size. True/False
    true
    3. What type of watershed is shown in the map?
    Chesapeake Bay water shed
    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?
    surface water and ground water
    7. Larger watersheds contain many . It all depends on the

    Many smaller water shed. Outflow point


    8. What is the outflow point?
    all the water that drains to that outflow point is the water shed
    9. Why are watersheds important? they drain water from streams and precipitations

    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
    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 saturation land cover and slope
    4. Water from rainfall returns to the atmosphere largely through .
    Evaporation
    5. The root systems of plants absorb water from the surrounding soil in various amounts through the
    process of .
    transpiration
    6.

    store water and increase the amount of water that evaporates and infiltrates.
    reservoirs

    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.
    White oak River Basin
    1. Home to rare insect eating plants like venus flytrap
    2. Almost Half covered by forest and wetlands
    3. Four sub basins
    4. 48-mile river that spills into the Bogue sound
    5. Contains the onlsow bigth with unique barrier islands and marshes
    6. Home to sturgeon city an environment education center
    7. 80,000 acres of the croatan national forest lie within the White oak
    River basin
    2

    8. Several rare and endangered animals are found


    9. Population growth in thirty years grew by 50 percent
    10.

    Jacksonville stopped discharging waste into rivers

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