1. Biodiversity??

2. Ecosystem An environment that includes all the biotic organisms (living things, like plants, animals, and bacteria) and the abiotic factors (non-living things, like temperature) that affect them.

3. Name a familiar ecosystem. List some of the living things in it.

4. Riparian Ecosystem The ecosystem where land and a river or stream meet each other.

5. The Baltimore region has a variety of streams, such as this region of the Gwynns Falls near Carroll Park.

6. Storm water retention ponds at Carroll Park/Park at Dead Run

7. Gunpowder River in Monkton from the NCR Trail a more rural setting north of the Beltway.

8. Pools vs. Riffles Riffle- fast moving, shallow water, higher amount of oxygen Pool- slow to no movement, deeper water, lower amount of oxygen

9. Do you think you will find different things in pools and riffles? Why?

10. What is a Watershed?

11. Watershed: is an area of land where water from rain or snow that melts drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, wetland, sea or ocean. What is a Watershed? Where would you expect water to flow from and to?

12. Chesapeake Bay WatershedGwynns Falls Watershed

13. http://md.water.usgs.gov/groundwater/physiomaps/physio_counties.gif

14. What is Biodiversity? Having different types/kinds of living things in an ecosytem