Slide 1 Name and Title

Define Watershed and Answer The Following Slide 2 Define Watershed and Answer The Following What is the source of the water in a watershed? What is the force that pulls the water from the land into the bay? Why would pollution on the land pose a threat to the health of the bay?

Slide 3 Calvert Middle School Watershed Address 655 Chesapeake Blvd Your Watershed Address

Slide 4 Using Biodiversity to determine the health of a stream What are BMI? Examples of BMI (pictures). Why are BMI useful as indicators of stream health?

Slide 5 Stream biodiversity study procedures Location How samples were collected How organisms were identified

Slide 6 Results of the survey

Slide 7 Effect of the land on the stream Focus on deforestation, sedimentation and nutrient pollution

Slide 8 Connections Explain how through the interconnectedness of waterways that what happens on one piece of land affects the entire Chesapeake Bay

Slide 9 Your land How has land use on your watershed changed over time. How might this affect your stream and the entire Chesapeake Bay

Slide 10 What can we as humans do to mitigate and improve the situation

Slide 11 Credits List at least 3 sources of information that you used for this presentation