Question to answer for Wednesday: watersheds
Today I asked you to start out by writing down your answer to the question "What is a watershed?", before we discussed it in class. Later, you updated your definition after seeing a presentation about watersheds. Then we delineated watersheds on paper maps, and finally headed out into the field to find our watershed on the ground.
Based on these different experiences and interactions with the concept of a watershed, in your own words, describe your understanding of a watershed - how will you explain it to others when you present your results from this class?
If your definition of a watershed changed throughout the day, include a short discussion of how the new information you gathered helped to change your idea of a watershed.
A concise, descriptive paragraph or two will suffice.
Based on these different experiences and interactions with the concept of a watershed, in your own words, describe your understanding of a watershed - how will you explain it to others when you present your results from this class?
If your definition of a watershed changed throughout the day, include a short discussion of how the new information you gathered helped to change your idea of a watershed.
A concise, descriptive paragraph or two will suffice.
6 Comments:
My current definition of a watershed is the path that water takes to get to the lowest available point, which is usually a lake, pond, or the ocean. In our case it is the ocean. The path that water takes usually merges into a common path, which becomes a stream. The stream then can get bigger because of more water joining the stream, creating a river. In our case it connects to the ocean before it can become a river. This is my current understanding of a watershed.
One of the things we looked for was the boundary of the watershed. A boundary of a watershed is where water will no longer follow the path that will get it to the same place. This helped to shape my understanding of a watershed because the topography determines where the watershed is, and the boundaries of that watershed.
By Nick Jimenez, At January 10, 2007 8:54 AM
A watershed is the area of land that collects water for a stream, river, bog, marsh, sea, ocean, or other body of water.
I would describe a watershed most easily as a drainage basin: land that collects rainwater that runs off into a particular body of water.
By Natalie Jimenez, At January 10, 2007 8:55 AM
my first definition of what a watershed is, was an area that drains water into a body of water that then drains into. The one sarah gave us was an "area of land that catches rain and snow into a stream." This is close to my answer and I think people would better understand it if they understood that every land mass is a water shed and a definition like we got. My definition had a great understanding after traveling and seeing the area.
By Ian Macomber, At January 10, 2007 8:58 AM
A watershed, as I understand it, is the entire area that collects water to be deposited into a body of water like the ocean, a river, or in our case, a stream. The size of the watershed depends on the size of what body of water you are studying, for example if you are looking at a larger body of water, the watershed for this area would be much larger and made up of some smaller watersheds that would each deposit to smaller areas within this larger watershed.
By Courtney Keen, At January 10, 2007 8:59 AM
My definition of a watershed is the area that water gathers to naturally, river, stream, bog, lake, pond, or ocean. When it rains the water will go downhill to the lowest point in the area forming a river, stream, bog, etc. Watersheds have boundries where the water no longer goes to the lowest point in the area we are looking at but goes in a different direction to another watershed.
By Ashley Chenevert, At January 10, 2007 9:03 AM
I would describe a watershed as and area of land that drains water to the same place. This would include any small rivers, streams, and tributaries, but it would also include rain or snow that might fall onto the ground.
The area that the streams, river, and runoff from the rain and snow might drain to could be a pond, lake, ocean, or maybe even another river. The size of the watershed and the extent of the boundaries would depend on where you assume the water drains.
By Kaitlin Stenberg, At January 10, 2007 9:04 AM
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