1. A Watershed: Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Ponds Write everything in red

2. Watershed A watershed, or drainage basin includes all of the land that drains into a river or bay either directly or through its tributaries,

3. The high land that separates one river valley or watershed from the next is called the divide

4. Satellite View: The Great Divide The Great Divide

5. Young Rivers Generally straight, narrow course of the river. Waterfalls Niagara Falls

6. Old Rivers Generally flat areas Wide flood plains Meanders Owens Valley, CA

7. Cutbank & point bar Point bar – sediments get deposited cutbank – sediments get eroded

9. Meander: Old River or New River?

10. What do you think will happen next?

11. What happens when you build a city on a flood plain?

13. Cincinnati 1997

14. Lake Turnover

15. Pond or Lake? Explain which one it is to your shoulder partner.

16. Why is this a lake? Discuss the reasons with your table.

17. Talk with your shoulder partner, what do you think is going on in this lake/pond?

18. What Lake is this, and what is it also known as?

19. Lake ?

20. A Man Made Levee A Natural Levee

21. Natural Levee

23. Oxbow Lake http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcqv5m http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/oxbow Oxbow lake and Chippewa River, Wisconsin http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gcqv5m http://www.sln.org.uk/geography/oxbow

24. What is this? Ask your shoulder partner

26. In your notebook, explain and draw the steps in the formation of an oxbow lake.