Lesson 1 Worksheet:
Watersheds and Natural Boundaries
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Date:
1. What is a watershed (in your own words) ?
2. What is a watershed boundary?
3. What is the Continental Divide?
4. Are you in a watershed right now?
5. What is the main river that flows through Fort
Collins?
6. What rivers does water from the Poudre River
flow into before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico?
7. What city does the Mississippi River flow through
just before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico?
8. Describe the difference between a political
boundary and a natural boundary?