page 32-33 of the UWP Educator’s Guide to Teaching Students About the Upper Uncompahgre River Watershed (also see contents, introduction & pdf link)
EXPLORING WATERSHEDS VOCABULARY
Activity Ideas:
- Students research words and make mini-posters that contain the definition, an example and illustration
- Students make vocabulary word cards and definitions for a sorting activity
- Students create an illustration or diagram of river system and label the features (examples below)
Vocabulary List:
| Waterway Terms | Geography Terms | Water Quality Terms |
| Bank | Watershed | Water Quality |
| Meander | Topography | Turbidity |
| Confluence | Tributary | Conductivity |
| Rapid | Erosion | Dissolved Oxygen |
| Braided | Flood plain | pH |
| Pool | Source | Benthic Macroinvertebrates BMI |
| Riffle | Mouth | Sedimentation |
| Eddy | Wetland | Acid mine drainage AMD |
Examples follow:
