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    The document defines a watershed as the area of land where all water drains to the same place. Watersheds include both natural features like snowpack, groundwater, and watershed dividers, as well as manmade features like agriculture, towns, and industry. Watersheds come in all sizes. They are important because they prevent flooding and act as a drainage system for wildlife. The document then prompts the reader to determine their own watershed location and conduct an activity using crumpled paper to model how watersheds function.

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    The document defines a watershed as the area of land where all water drains to the same place. Watersheds include both natural features like snowpack, groundwater, and watershed dividers, as well as manmade features like agriculture, towns, and industry. Watersheds come in all sizes. They are important because they prevent flooding and act as a drainage system for wildlife. The document then prompts the reader to determine their own watershed location and conduct an activity using crumpled paper to model how watersheds function.

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    3.09 Water: It Goes With the Flow Work File Pre-Activity: What is a Watershed? 1. What is a watershed?

    Be sure to include a description of the term runoff in your definition of a watershed. The area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place 2. What parts of the environment, natural and manmade, make up a watershed? Give examples of each. Look at the diagram in resource site 3. What parts of the diagram are: a. Natural: snowpack,sub basin, waterrshed, watershed divider, ground waterr, etc. b. Manmade: agriculture, town, industry, forestry 3. How big is a watershed? Watersheds come in all shapes and sizes 4. Why are watersheds important to humans? prevents flooding 5. Why are watersheds important to wildlife? act as a drainage system 6. In which watershed do you live? (In the first web resource: Use the link - "What is my Watershed Address?" Then in the first paragraph: "Locate Your Watershed" On the page that comes up, scroll down just a hair or so and enter your zip code.) Lower Salt Watershed -- 15060106 Activity: Wad a Watershed 7. What part of the natural environment does the crumpled paper represent?

    mountains and natural landscape 9. What does the colored water, which flows following the misting of the paper, represent? rainfall 10. Based on the definition of a watershed, how many different watersheds were there in your model? Explain how you determined this number! innumerable,the cracks all drain the water

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