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What is a Watershed ?

What is a Watershed ?. How Important is Water?. The surface of planet Earth is covered by about 70% water. The Human Body is about 65% water (on average). Water Impacts Our Lives Everyday. Where does water come from?. The Water Cycle. Where does the rainwater go?. Downhill. Watershed.

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What is a Watershed ?

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  1. What is a Watershed ?

  2. How Important is Water? The surface of planet Earth is covered by about 70% water. The Human Body is about 65% water (on average).

  3. Water Impacts Our Lives Everyday

  4. Where does water come from?

  5. The Water Cycle

  6. Where does the rainwater go? Downhill

  7. Watershed Watershed Divide 3 2 1 Watershed divide: Ridges that separate two watersheds Watershed : All of the land that drains water into one place 3 How many watersheds are pictured?

  8. The land that drains water into a stream, river or lake. It can be small or extremely large.

  9. What is the largest watershed (basin) in North America? In what “subwatershed” of the Mississippi will you find most of Kentucky’s land area? Pacific Atlantic Mississippi River Basin (Watershed) Gulf of Mexico Ohio River Basin (Watershed)

  10. Kentucky Watersheds Lakes 1) Kentucky 2) Barkley 3) Cumberland 4) Dale Hollow 5) Barren River 6) Nolin River 7) Rough River 8) Cave Run B B I G H C 8 B 7 6 D F A 2 5 3 1 F 4 E Rivers A) Mississippi B) Ohio C) Kentucky D) Green E) Tennessee F) Cumberland G) Big Sandy H) Salt I) Licking

  11. Watersheds of the Kentucky and Green Rivers By starting at the river mouth and drawing a line to separate two rivers from each other, the approximate watershed for that river can be drawn.

  12. River Basins of Kentucky

  13. Large drainage areas can be broken down into smaller ones that “nest” inside them. Sub-watersheds

  14. Hypoxic Zone Hypo = under, low Oxic = Oxygen Area where very low level of dissolved oxygen prevents the existence of living things. Caused by a process called Eutrophication

  15. Cultural Eutrophication • Use of fertilizers and other phosphates in watershed • Runoff to rivers • Excessive algae growth • Decomposition of dead algae by aerobic bacteria • Depletion of dissolved oxygen • Dead Zone forms Hypoxic Zone Resources: http://www.gulfhypoxia.net/ http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/hypoxia/

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