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Watersheds & Wetlands Quiz

The document is a quiz about watersheds and wetlands. It contains 8 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions that test understanding of key concepts: 1) A wetland is an area where water is found above or just below the ground. 2) A watershed is the land area that drains into a body of water. 3) Wetlands help prevent flooding and clean water by filtering and absorbing precipitation that falls or flows through their soils, plants, and other natural materials.

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Watersheds & Wetlands Quiz

The document is a quiz about watersheds and wetlands. It contains 8 multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions that test understanding of key concepts: 1) A wetland is an area where water is found above or just below the ground. 2) A watershed is the land area that drains into a body of water. 3) Wetlands help prevent flooding and clean water by filtering and absorbing precipitation that falls or flows through their soils, plants, and other natural materials.

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Watersheds & Wetlands

Environment & Ecology Series Quiz

Directions: Circle the one correct answer for each question below:

1. What is a wetland?
a. A long channel of fast moving water.
b. The rain, sleet, hail, or snow falling to the ground.
c. An area where water is found above or just below the ground.
d. A place where plants grow without rain.

2. What is a watershed?
a. The movement of water in clouds and around the world.
b. The area under the ground where water is stored in rocks and soil.
c. Water in the form of rain, mist, sleet, hail, or snow.
d. The land area that drains into a body of water.

Directions: Fill in the blanks with the correct answer from the word bank below. Use
only one word per blank.

Word Bank
living flooding non-living standing cattails soil
water plastic streams tree falls stones

3. Still water is also called water.

4. Wetlands help keep the environment healthy by cleaning and filtering water, and by

preventing .

5. A watershed includes all of the and


things that are found inside it.

6. Moving water is found in creeks, rivers and .

7. Groundwater is found in the and


below the surface of the land.

8) Precipitation is the water that from the sky.


Quiz Answers (Do not copy onto Student Quizzes): 1) c. 2) d. 3) standing 4) flooding
5) living and non-living 6) streams 7) soil and stones 8) falls

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