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Virginia’s Water Resources

Virginia’s Water Resources. By Miss Oberlander. Watershed. An area over which surface water (and the materials it carries) flows to a single collection place. Virginia’s 3 Watersheds. Match the watershed name with its location on the map. Chesapeake Bay Gulf of Mexico NC Sounds.

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Virginia’s Water Resources

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  1. Virginia’s Water Resources By Miss Oberlander

  2. Watershed • An area over which surface water (and the materials it carries) flows to a single collection place.

  3. Virginia’s 3 Watersheds Match the watershed name with its location on the map. • Chesapeake Bay • Gulf of Mexico • NC Sounds

  4. Our Watershed Address School Creek Algonkian Creek Potomac River Chesapeake Bay

  5. How can you identify a place’s watershed address? • If there is a creek or river nearby that would be the beginning of that place’s watershed address. If there is a bigger creek or river or bay that it flows into, that will be the second part. When you get as general as possible, that is the end of the watershed address.

  6. Virginia’s Water Resources include: • Groundwater • Lakes • Reservoirs • Rivers • Bays • Atlantic Ocean

  7. Groundwater • Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers

  8. Lakes • A body of water that is usually fresh. • Lake Drummond • Smith Mountain Lake • Lakes are considered resources because they provide sources of food, water and recreation.

  9. Reservoirs • an artificial or natural lake where water is collected as a water supply • Nearly all lakes in Virginia are man-made reservoirs, created by dams that block streams and flood land to form a lake.

  10. Rivers • a large stream that flows across land. • What are Virginia’s 4 major rivers? • James River • York River • Rappahannock • Potomac

  11. Bays • an inlet of the sea or some other body of water, usually smaller than a gulf. • The Chesapeake Bay is Virginia’s largest water resource. • Bays are extensions of larger bodies of water, such as lakes or oceans. The Chesapeake Bay is an extension of the Atlantic Ocean and it is salt water.

  12. Atlantic Ocean

  13. We all live Downstream…. • Everything we throw away or dump down the drain affects us. • The pollutants flow into the watershed and into the rivers and oceans.

  14. We all live Downstream (continued)… • The polluted water then evaporates and comes down as rain which we drink. • We need to take care of the earth because humans and animals need clean water.

  15. A River Ran Wild

  16. “Pollute the Potomac” Simulation

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