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.
7 Comments:
A watershed is an area of land that provides a stream, river, marsh, bog, ocean, sea, or other body of water with runoff.
I would explain this to a fellow scholar as a drainage basin. To someone who hasn’t taken an Earth Science course I would describe it as land that collects water which runs downhill into rivers and streams and eventually enters the ocean.
By Natalie Jimenez, At January 9, 2007 8:16 PM
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 9:02 AM
A watershed is a plot of land, large or small, that drains water into a stream, river, lake, or other body of water.
To explain this, I would use a funnel to represent a watershed to show that all the water hitting any area of our water shed would eventually run down into our stream or lake.
By Rhyan Ahearn, At January 10, 2007 9:04 AM
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By Rhyan Ahearn, At January 10, 2007 9:04 AM
A watershed, as I understand it, is the area of land around a body of water, whether it be a stream, pond, river, lake, or ocean, that collects water that then drains into the said body of water.
when explaining it to others I would say just that, and then give information about how mountainous areas like the one we are in make it complicated to figure out where the boundaries for the watershed are, and how changes in slope effects the water flow.
By Andrea Jarrett, At January 10, 2007 9:05 AM
Rhyan used a great metaphor for a watershed that's a really effective image - a funnel. This seems like a good metaphor, and a very intuitive way to describe a watershed to someone who isn't familiar with the concept.
By Sarah Nelson, At January 10, 2007 9:09 PM
The watershed is the area around a water supply that supplies it with the water in the bdoy of water?
All the water that lands in a certain area would end up at a certain point. the certain area is the watershed of the certain point.
By Jordan Dolan, At January 11, 2007 5:18 PM
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