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    This document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to answer questions about watersheds and river basins. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains water to a common outlet such as a river, sea, or lake. Watersheds can vary significantly in size and consist of surface water features and underlying groundwater. Everything that occurs within a watershed, including rainfall, streams, plants, soil, and human activities, ultimately affects the water quality within the watershed and in the areas downstream. The document asks the reader to research and provide details about factors that influence watershed runoff and streamflow, as well as facts about one of North Carolina's river basins.

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    This document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to answer questions about watersheds and river basins. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains water to a common outlet such as a river, sea, or lake. Watersheds can vary significantly in size and consist of surface water features and underlying groundwater. Everything that occurs within a watershed, including rainfall, streams, plants, soil, and human activities, ultimately affects the water quality within the watershed and in the areas downstream. The document asks the reader to research and provide details about factors that influence watershed runoff and streamflow, as well as facts about one of North Carolina's river basins.

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    This document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to answer questions about watersheds and river basins. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains water to a common outlet such as a river, sea, or lake. Watersheds can vary significantly in size and consist of surface water features and underlying groundwater. Everything that occurs within a watershed, including rainfall, streams, plants, soil, and human activities, ultimately affects the water quality within the watershed and in the areas downstream. The document asks the reader to research and provide details about factors that influence watershed runoff and streamflow, as well as facts about one of North Carolina's river basins.

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    What Is A Watershed Webquest?: Name: Jason Morrison II

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    This document provides information about watersheds and asks the reader to answer questions about watersheds and river basins. It defines a watershed as an area of land that drains water to a common outlet such as a river, sea, or lake. Watersheds can vary significantly in size and consist of surface water features and underlying groundwater. Everything that occurs within a watershed, including rainfall, streams, plants, soil, and human activities, ultimately affects the water quality within the watershed and in the areas downstream. The document asks the reader to research and provide details about factors that influence watershed runoff and streamflow, as well as facts about one of North Carolina's river basins.

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    What is a Watershed Webquest?

    Name:

    Jason Morrison II

    Access the following link and answer the questions:


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

    1. What is a watershed? an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to


    different rivers, basins, or seas.

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

    3. What type of watershed is shown in the map?

    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--lakes, streams, reservoirs,


    and wetlands--and all the underlying ground water

    7. Larger watersheds contain many . It all depends on the


    Smaller watersheds
    8. What is the outflow point?
    Watershed for the outflow location
    1

    9. Why are watersheds important? because the surface water features and stormwater
    runoff within a watershed ultimately drain to other bodies of water. It is essential to
    consider these downstream impacts when developing and implementing water quality
    protection and restoration actions. Everything upstream ends up downstream.

    A Watershed is a precipitation collector:


    1. Name 6 factors that determine how much of the streamflow will flow by the monitoring site?

    2. What is the greatest factor controlling streamflow?

    3. The amount of water that will infiltrate (soak in over time) depends on which four characteristics?

    4. Water from rainfall returns to the atmosphere largely through .

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

    6.

    store 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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