Name:
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Watershed Internet Search
1. Click here
on: Know
Your Watershed and another site: The Evergreen Project on
Watersheds. Look at What is a Watershed? and How a River
Becomes a Stream. First read the information at both sites. Then write the definition for watershed:
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get back to this page.
2. Click here
on: EPA's what is a WATERSHED? Finish the sentence from this site: "The actions of people
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3. Read the quote by
John Wesley Powell. What area did he explore?
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4. Click on Know Your
Watershed. Look in the left hand column for:
Getting to Know Your Watershed – it
is below Watershed Guides – and
click on it. Now READ: Let's start
basic: What is a watershed? and Why is your watershed
important?
How is the water in a
watershed used?
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5. "Watersheds provide
water for
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6. Scroll down to Understanding
your watershed. What are the 5
natural resources which are involved in the complex web that is the watershed?
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until you get back to this page.
7. Click here on: Surf Your Watershed:
Texas. Look at the map of
How many watersheds?
_______________________ How many
counties? _______________________
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8. Click here
on: Upper
Trinity. What are the 3 cities listed in the Upper Trinity Watershed
map?
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9. Click here on: Watershed
Address. Scroll down to look at “Do
you know your watershed address?” For
“Select Method” choose “Zip Code (5 digit number)” and then enter “75115”. Click on submit. Write down the 8 digit number, which is the
address, and the name of our watershed.
a)
address:______________________________________ b)
name:__________________________________________
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10. Where are the Head
Waters (or beginning) of the
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11. What is the name
of the major lake on the
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12. Click here on Trinity River, Texas. Read the article on the
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until you get back to this page.
13. Click here on The
Handbook of Texas Online. Read
the article on the
In the upper basin? In
the lower basin?
a) _____________________________________ b)______________________________________
14. What has caused
the waters of the Trinity to become increasingly more polluted over the past
century?
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15.
Go to Getting to Know
Your Local Watershed: A Guide for Watershed Partnerships; read the
entire article and write down two interesting facts, that you have not already
learned, about watersheds on a separate sheet of paper and staple it to your
worksheet.