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EQ: Where is Earth’s water located? What
percentage of water is available for our use?
LT: I can explain the processes by which
water moves through the water cycle.
POU: I will differentiate between Watersheds
& River Basins. I will identify major river
basins in NC. I can define key River Basin
Vocabulary
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Explain how the
crumpled paper
and marker from
the “Where does
my water flow?”
activity
represents a
watershed and
river basin.
Is a watershed
LAND or WATER?
Record your response
:
www.goo.gl/vta7d1
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Remember, you also
need to add your
warm up from
YESTERDAY!
Title
Assignment #
Energy Vocabulary
5
Properties of Water Cloze Notes (Handout)
6
Properties of Water Vocabulary
7
Water Properties Webquest
8
Water Cycle Brainpop
9
Water Cycle Vocabulary
10
Water on Earth Notes
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River Basin Notes
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River Basin Vocab
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Water ~ 8th Grade Science
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We know that precipitation (rain, snow, sleet
and hail) will soak into the ground or it runs
downhill into surface water.
What is surface water?
◦ Water found on the surface of the Earth such as
rivers, lakes, streams or ocean
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What is a river?
◦ A large channel along which water is continually flowing down
a slope—made of many streams that come together
(tributaries)
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What are tributaries?
◦ streams and smaller rivers that feed into a main/large
river
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What is a stream?
◦ A small channel along which water is continually
flowing down a slope—made of small gullies
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What is a lake?
◦ A body of water of considerable size contained on a
body of land
an area of land that drains water to the
lowest point—a river, stream, lake, or ocean
Everyone lives, works or plays in a watershed.
Watersheds drain water to the lowest point.
In the diagram below, the land within the white
line is the watershed that drains into the
tributaries that will eventually flow larger river
and then on to the ocean
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http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module01/w
hatiswatershed.htm
Durham has 5 main
Watersheds:
1. Lake Michie*
* (not pictured)
2. Little River
3. Eno River
4. Falls Lake
5. Jordan Lake
In this image you can see
all the tributaries that
make up the different
watersheds.
A group of interconnected
watersheds form a
river basin.
Encompasses all land surface drained by
tributaries (streams and creeks) that flow
downhill eventually into one large river.
A river basin’s
final destination
is an estuary or
ocean.
A bathtub catches all water falling within its’ sides, a
River basin sends all the water falling on surrounding
land into a central river and out to an estuary or
ocean.
The bus lot is like an ocean…
Relate the classrooms, hallways, lab groups,
and students to the flow of water in a
watershed.
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A Watershed is like my classroom
The students are the water
What are the tributaries through my
watershed?
◦ Different paths to the door
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Where does the water flow?
◦ To the hallway “River”
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The hallways are Rivers which flow to the
cafeteria and the exits
Can the LGMS River Basin also be a
watershed? Where do students from LGMS go
next?
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Durham County is located mainly in the
Neuse River Basin
The largest river basin in NC is the Cape
Fear River Basin
Cape Fear and Neuse River Basins are made
of many small watersheds
North Carolina River Basins
Durham
NC is made of 17 river basins
5 will flow into the Mississippi River Basin
The other 12 will flow into the Atlantic Ocean
11 originate in NC
Only 4 are entirely contained within NC:
Cape Fear, Neuse, White Oak, and Tar-Pamlico
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Some river basins will become watersheds to
another LARGER river basin such as the
Mississippi River Basin.
In NC the New, Watauga, French Broad, Little
Tennessee, Hiwassee all flow into the Ohio
River Basin and then to the even larger
Mississippi Basin
Tributaries: streams and smaller rivers that feed
into a main/large river
Watershed: an area of land that drains water
to the lowest point—a river, stream, lake, or
ocean. Several Watersheds make up a River
Basin
River Basin: an area of land that drains water
into a large river
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http://triangleenvironment.wikispaces.com/CleanWater
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservati
on/issues/watershed1.htm
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2005/08/15/fo
cus2.html?page=all