Watershed Objective Sheet Name ______
Date ______Period ______
This is your study guide for the unit test. If your notes and interactive notebook are complete and you feel comfortable answering these questions, you’re ready to get an A on the test!
1. Explain why Buffalo Bayou is called fresh water.
2. What is an estuary? How are freshwater flows important to them?
3. How does Houston rely on healthy estuaries?
4. Explain why Houston was founded at the confluence of White Oak and Buffalo Bayous.
5. Define watershed, tributaries, floodplain, river source, river mouth. Know which direction is upstream and which is downstream. On any map, be able to locate all these parts of a watershed.
6. Name your watershed. Name the course rain water takes when it rains on WHS, all the way from the high school to the Gulf of Mexico.
7. Diagram a cycle of the water cycle. Understand all the processes and locations in the cycle.
8. What is an aquifer? How is a recharge zone related to an aquifer? What happens when a recharge zone is covered in pavement?
9. How much of the planet’s water is available for human consumption? In what forms is the rest of the water supply?
10. What is the difference between storm drains in the street and the drains that carry water from your sink?
11. What kinds of materials commonly get washed down storm drains that shouldn’t go down them? What problems do these materials cause?
12. Explain the route litter takes from the Westside parking lot to the ocean.
Tuesday Jan 6Welcome back!
Reintroduction to Houston’s four ecosystems. / Wednesday Jan 7/Thursday Jan 8
Activity: Watersheds in the Round (due end of the period) / Fri Jan 9
Interactive notebook: Watershed terms and reading a map practice
HW – prepare for watershed map quiz Monday
Monday Jan 12
Quiz – reading a watershed map
Interactive notebook: The water cycle / Tuesday Jan 13
Review day!
HW – study objective sheet, quiz and interactive notebook / Wednesday Jan 14/Thursday Jan 15
TEST – Watersheds
Interactive notebook check!
Start fossil fuel unit