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Fresh Water in Pennsylvania Directions: Click on the link to go to a site with the answer to the question. The answer is often on the linked page. A few require you to choose an appropriate link to another page with the answer. If a link is broken, use your online research skills to find the answer. Use the Go menu of your browser to return to this hunt page. printer sheet 1. The Water Cycle is also called the Hydrologic Cycle - Write the name for each of the seven steps and what occurs at each step of the Water Cycle. a.
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2. What is groundwater?
Where does groundwater come from?
3. Geology of Pennsylvania's Groundwater True or false. All of Pennsylvania's groundwater is fresh water. How much groundwater did your county use each day in 1990?
4. A Lentic ecosystem is a nonflowing or standing body of fresh water. Lakes, Ponds, Ditches, Swamps, Bogs, and Marshes Ephemeral pools are examples.
5. Lotic ecosystems have flowing fresh water. Examples are rivers, brooks, creeks, springs and streams. Write 2 facts about lotic ecosystems
6. What does a Wetland ecologist do?
7. Ground Water comes from the aquifer. What is an aquifer?
8. Write two easy ways you can save water.
9. Print this picture. Label the parts of the water cycle.
Watch NOAA's Water Cycle What percentage of water is fresh? Where is it stored?
"When the well's dry, we know the worth of water." Benjamin Franklin
Flow father: Take the challenge - Is it a Lentic Ecosystem or Lotic Ecosystem. Watch The Water Cycle | Explore DEP - Water | Check out Goodbye Orange Water - Why is the water orange? Label a map of Pennsylvania's waters. | Water Studies Word Problems | Fresh Water Math Pathfinder Science - Stream Monitoring | Precipitation and Population Hetch Hetchy and the Sierra Nevada Watershed - Make a similar project for your community Cooperative Wetlands Center @ Penn State 2006 Cynthia J. O'Hora May be used freely in a non profit setting. |
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Aligned with the Pennsylvania State Academic Standards for: Reading Writing, Listening and Speaking, Science and Technology “Environment and Ecology" - Watersheds and Wetlands 4.1.4 A: Identify various types of water environments · Lotic systems (e.g. creeks, rivers, streams) · Lentic systems (ponds, lakes, swamps) 4.1. A. Explain the role of the water cycle within a watershed. Explain the water cycle. Explain the water cycle as it relates to a watershed. · B. Understand the role of the watershed. · Explain how water enters a watershed. 4.3. Environmental Health A. Describe environmental health issues. B. Describe how human actions affect the health of the environment. B. Analyze the local, regional and national impacts of environmental health. 4.8. Humans and the Environment C. Explain how human activities may affect local, regional and national environments. |
