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Fishing Unit 3
What's your Watershed
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a watershed? | all the land from which water drains into a specific body of water |
| _________ lives in a watershed and all land on Earth is part of some ___________. | Everyone, watershed |
| what is the biggest watershed in the US? | the mississippi |
| What is your watershed address? | the watershed, sub-watershed, sub-sub-watershed, in which you live. |
| what does your watershed tell you? | This tells which lake, stream, or wetland collects the water that falls on your home. |
| what can effect your watershed? | everything that happens on land? |
| what affects the health of our aquatic resources? | what we do to the land |
| What happens in a healthy watershed? | Water is filtered and stored |
| As water runs downhill, it picks up what and where does it go? | It picks up whatever is on the ground- dirt, pollutants, heat, and it flows into a wetland or lake |
| what is Point-source pollution? | when water comes from a single source like a pipe |
| what is Non point pollution? | when water comes from a combination of many sources rather than a single source. |
| What are some examples of non-point pollution? | Runoff, fertilizers, fuel, oil and antifreeze from roads and animal waste |
| What is the biggest pollutant in Missouri? | dirt/soil |
| what is the proper name for dirt? | soil |
| what is dirt called when in water? | sediment |
| what is The biggest pollution problem in Missouri’s waters? | excess sediment |
| what is Sediment? | any bit of rock or soil such as mud, clay, silt, sand, gravel-even boulders |
| What happens when there is excess sediment in the water? | Blocks out light killing aquatic plants. And it covers up places the animals live in. It smothers aquatic animals by clogging it's gills and reducing amt of oxygen and water |
| what is Erosion? | the movement of solid material such as soil, mud, and rock |
| Erosion is a natural process caused by what? | Forces of water, wind, ice, gravity, and living things |
| Where can erosion be a big problem? | Ares where too many tree are being cut down, construction, and overgrazing |
| How can we slow erosion? | Building terraces and planting trees |
| What are the five physiographic regions in Missouri? | 1 Dissected till plains 2 st.francois mountains 3 osage plains 4 ozarks 5 bootheel |
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