The Water Cycle & Watersheds

CLOUDRIVER HIGHLANDS · TRICKLING

The Water Cycle & Watersheds

Watershed Reservoir Vault

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Trickling — The Water Cycle & Watersheds Watershed Reservoir Vault

Hi!

I'm Trickling.

Welcome to Watershed Reservoir Vault!

Will you help me investigate the water cycle & watersheds?

The Grumblies have mixed up our clues.

Let's check the evidence!

The water cycle connects many stores and pathways.

Sunlight supplies energy for evaporation, while gravity helps water fall and flow.

What supplies energy for much evaporation?

  • A. Only the Moon's shape
  • B. The Sun
  • C. A stream's map label

The answer is B: The Sun

The water cycle connects many stores and pathways.

Sunlight supplies energy for evaporation, while gravity helps water fall and flow.

That clue helps us make sense of this place.

A watershed is land that drains toward a common outlet.

Choices upstream can affect water downstream because flowing water can carry materials.

What is a watershed?

  • A. Land draining toward a common outlet
  • B. Only the water inside one bucket
  • C. A special kind of rain cloud

The answer is A: Land draining toward a common outlet

A watershed is land that drains toward a common outlet.

Choices upstream can affect water downstream because flowing water can carry materials.

Hmm...

how does that connect to our first clue?

Journey A runs from ocean to vapor to cloud to rain.

Journey B runs from rain into soil and groundwater,

then to a stream.

Neither is the only possible route.

Can groundwater connect to a stream?

  • A. No, it is always sealed away
  • B. Only in drawings, never in nature
  • C. Yes

The answer is C: Yes

Journey A runs from ocean to vapor to cloud to rain.

Journey B runs from rain into soil and groundwater,

then to a stream.

Neither is the only possible route.

Nice investigating!

You've been following the evidence.

Let's bring our clues together before the adventure.

The water cycle connects many stores and pathways.

A watershed is land that drains toward a common outlet.

Journey A runs from ocean to vapor to cloud to rain.

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