Watershed making can be fun and easy if you follow directions. A watershed is an area of land from which rain and melting snow drain into a river, stream or another body of water. A watershed can be big or small . If it is small the water drains into the neighborhood stream, or even river. If large, like the Chesapeake Bay, the water drains into a large river. By defining the boundaries of a watershed, you can determine what types of pollution affects a body of water. You can also determine where the pollution comes from. This will help people to see how they can clean up polluted waters. Any slope of land can determine the boundary of a watershed.A really big watershed is the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This is the watershed that I did. This watershed includes the Susqehanna, Patuxtent, Choptank, James, Potomac, York, and Rappahannock Rivers . These are the major rivers. The way that I made a watershed was to takes a blank map with all of the states that are included in The Chesapeake Bay Watershed and marking down cities, towns, small rivers, major bodies of water, etc. I found out lots of new things about The Chesapeake Bay Watershed. It is educational and fun too.

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