Mission

Your mission,
should you choose to accept it,
will be to:

Read this project's background story and follow the links to get all the information.
Search the web for information on your city's or county's watersheds.
With your teacher's help, contact a representative in your community or your county via email or by postal mail to see if you can get some topographical maps or any other maps of your area's watershed.
While you are waiting for a response, acquire some maps of your area on your own. Street maps or county maps will do.
Figure out by looking at the different elevations in your area, which way water flows when it rains.
Spot any streams, rivers, ponds or lakes in your area.
With your teacher's help, figure out what types of ecosystems are found around any of the streams, rivers, ponds or lakes you spotted in your area.
Think about and discuss what will happen if poisons or other types of pollution are deposited in different parts of your town, city or county.
Finally, answer these questions.