Watershed & Human Effects on Groundwater

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Lesson 4

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Effects of Weather on the Land

Skim Lesson 4 in your book. Read the headings and look at the photos and illustrations. Identify three things you want to learn more about as you read the lesson. Record your ideas in your Science Journal.

Define ecoregion, and note two examples.

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ecoregion:

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Express the relationship between the weather in given areas, climate, and ecoregions.

Weather

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Ecoregion

Contrast four of Texas’s larger ecoregions. West Texas

Central Texas and Panhandle

East Texas

Coastal

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Climate

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Lesson 4 | Effects of Weather on the Land (continued)

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Relate two factors that determine which organisms can live in an area.

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Contrast groundwater and surface water. Groundwater

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Surface Water

Define watershed, and identify three human activities that

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affect watersheds. watershed:

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Distinguish erosion from deposition. Erosion

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Deposition

Describe the ecoregion in which you live.

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