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!
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4.
Explain why Buffalo Bayou is called fresh water.
What is an estuary? How are freshwater flows important to them?
How does Houston rely on healthy estuaries?
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 6
Wednesday Jan 7/Thursday Jan 8
Welcome back! Activity: Watersheds in the Round
Reintroduction
(due end of the period)
to Houston’s
four ecosystems.
Fri Jan 9
Interactive
notebook:
Watershed terms
and reading a
map practice
HW – prepare
for watershed
map quiz
Monday
Monday Jan 12
Tuesday Jan 13
Wednesday Jan 14/Thursday Jan 15
Quiz – reading a
watershed map
Review day!
TEST – Watersheds
Interactive notebook check!
Interactive
notebook: The
water cycle
HW – study
objective sheet,
quiz and
interactive
notebook
Start fossil fuel unit