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River Basin Scavenger Hunt http://www.eenorthcarolina.org/Documents/RiverBasin_pdfs/final_web_BOOKLET.pdf
- Name 2 issues that led to public interest in rivers and river basins.
- Which organism killed millions of fish in coastal waters?
- Land that water flows across or under on its way to a river is called ____________.
- Where does the water go after it falls into a river basin?
- What is an estuary?
- Describe the difference between a river basin and a watershed.
- Describe the possible path water takes in an individual watershed.
- What do we call water found in the cracks and pores in sand, gravel, and rocks below the earth’s surface.
- Can more than one watershed be found in an individual river basin? Justify your answer.
- Do you live in a river basin?
- What does water transfer as it moves downstream?
- The quote, “the health of an aquatic ecosystem is directly related to activities on land,” refers to an aquatic ecosystem. What is an aquatic ecosystem?
- What is the name of the largest river basin in NC? …smallest river basin in NC?
- Which river basin do you live in?
- What is an aquifer?
- What is an ecological address? What are the 9 components of your ecological address?
- Where does the water from a storm drain flow to?
- What is topography?
- What is a floodplain?
- What is a wetland?
- How do wetlands help to regulate water flow?
- Where do you get your drinking water?
- How do contaminated soils affect your drinking water?
- What is biodiversity?
- What does the term permeable mean?
- What does the term impermeable mean?
- What is a river, according to the section entitled “The Ecosystem Connection”?
- What is an ecological footprint?
- A large variety and large number of aquatic organisms is an indication of this state of water quality.
- Describe the term vegetative buffer.
- What is sediment?
- How does sediment affect the water quality?
- Why are more humans vulnerable to flooding?
- How has urban development reduced the land’s ability to absorb runoff?
- Discuss the Clean Water Act of 1972.
- What is a point source pollutant? A non-point source pollutant?
- What does excess nutrients cause to grow in water resulting in the death of masses of fish?
- What is stormwater?
- How can the flow of stormwater be controlled?
- When a scientist surveys the macroinvertebrates in a body of water, what is he/she studying?
41. Name 4 ways that citizens are making a difference in their communities.