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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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
1. Explain how the crumpled paper and marker from the “Where does my water flow?” activity represents a watershed and river basin.
2. Is a watershed LAND or WATER?
Record your response :
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Remember, you also need to add your warm up from YESTERDAY!
* (not pictured)2.Little River3.Eno River4.Falls Lake5.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 destinationis 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.
A Watershed is like my classroom The students are the water What are the tributaries through my
watershed?◦ Different paths to the door
Where does the water flow?◦ To the hallway “River”
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?
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
NC is made of 17 river basins5 will flow into the Mississippi River BasinThe other 12 will flow into the Atlantic Ocean
11 originate in NCOnly 4 are entirely contained within NC:
Cape Fear, Neuse, White Oak, and Tar-Pamlico
Durham
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