whats unique about lake champlains basin watershed?
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What's unique? It is glaciated, for starters. it is also part of the "Great Valley" formation running from the tip of Lake Champlain down through the Hudson Valley, Appalachians, to Georgia. Very striking feature on a topo map. \n\nThe Saranac River flows north to empty into it. That is unique. There is a lot of iron in the rocks surrounding it. Not sure if it actually has an outlet or not.
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Over time, a stream system achieves a particular drainage pattern to its network of stream channels and tributaries as determined by local geologic factors. Drainage patterns or nets are classified on the basis of their form and texture. Their shape or pattern develops in response to the local topography and subsurface geology.
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Susquehanna River\n\nOne of the great wonders of the Chesapeake Bay watershed is that you can stand in southern New York state and place a small wooden boat in one of the tributaries of the Susquehanna River and follow it into and through the Chesapeake Bay and then out into the Atlantic Ocean. \nIn the mid-Atlantic states, it's called the "Mighty Susquehanna." It's the largest river lying entirely within the United States that drains into the Atlantic Ocean and the 16th largest river in the United States. The River's 27,500-square-mile watershed covers parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York. This is about 43 percent of the Bay's 64,000 square miles of drainage basin.
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Rivers & streams are parts of drainage basins (aka watersheds). This means that they drain most of the surface water from an area.\n\nWhen it rains very heavily, it runs off & goes into the rivers & streams b/c they are lower in elevation. This is called surface runoff.\n\nRivers are only capable of handling a certain amount of water at a time. When it reaches flood stage it will overflow it's banks.\n\nAlthough it is possible for a lake to flood, more than likely it will not. It is less likely to get all the surface runoff from the surrounding area.\n\nOceans are not going to flood unless sea level rises. There is no real "normal" flood stage for oceans. Over time they transgress & regress in response to climate change. Water is constantly being evaporated from the oceans as well.\n\nMost of our precipitation comes from water vapor that was evaporated from the oceans. This is simply b/c oceans cover the majority of the planet.\n\nHope this helps.
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There is no park that has all of that. You can go to about 3 different parks to find all that though. Pratt's Falls, Beaver Lake, and Jamesville Beach. \n\nGood link on the previous answer.
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Holocene Soil Development on Till and Outwash Inferred from Lake-Sediment Geochemistry in Michigan and Wisconsin \nAuthors: Ewing H.A.1; Nater E.A.2\nSource: Quaternary Research, Volume 57, Number 2, March 2002, pp. 234-243(10)\n\nParent material. Few soils weather directly from the underlying rocks. These "residual" soils have the same general chemistry as the original rocks. More commonly, soils form in materials that have moved in from elsewhere. Materials may have moved many miles or only a few feet. Windblown "loess" is common in the Midwest. It buries "glacial till" in many areas. Glacial till is material ground up and moved by a glacier. The material in which soils form is called "parent material." In the lower part of the soils, these materials may be relatively unchanged from when they were deposited by moving water, ice, or wind.\n\nSediments along rivers have different textures, depending on whether the stream moves quickly or slowly. Fast-moving water leaves gravel, rocks, and sand. Slow-moving water and lakes leave fine textured material (clay and silt) when sediments in the water settle out.\n\nClimate. Soils vary, depending on the climate. Temperature and moisture amounts cause different patterns of weathering and leaching. Wind redistributes sand and other particles especially in arid regions. The amount, intensity, timing, and kind of precipitation influence soil formation. Seasonal and daily changes in temperature affect moisture effectiveness, biological activity, rates of chemical reactions, and kinds of vegetation.\n\nTopography. Slope and aspect affect the moisture and temperature of soil. Steep slopes facing the sun are warmer, just like the south-facing side of a house. Steep soils may be eroded and lose their topsoil as they form. Thus, they may be thinner than the more nearly level soils that receive deposits from areas upslope. Deeper, darker colored soils may be expected on the bottom land.\n\nBiological factors. Plants, animals, micro-organisms, and humans affect soil formation. Animals and micro-organisms mix soils and form burrows and pores. Plant roots open channels in the soils. Different types of roots have different effects on soils. Grass roots are "fibrous" near the soil surface and easily decompose, adding organic matter. Taproots open pathways through dense layers. Micro-organisms affect chemical exchanges between roots and soil. Humans can mix the soil so extensively that the soil material is again considered parent material.\n\nThe native vegetation depends on climate, topography, and biological factors plus many soil factors such as soil density, depth, chemistry, temperature, and moisture. Leaves from plants fall to the surface and decompose on the soil. Organisms decompose these leaves and mix them with the upper part of the soil. Trees and shrubs have large roots that may grow to considerable depths.\n\nTime. Time for all these factors to interact with the soil is also a factor. Over time, soils exhibit features that reflect the other forming factors. Soil formation processes are continuous. Recently deposited material, such as the deposition from a flood, exhibits no features from soil development activities. The previous soil surface and underlying horizons become buried. The time clock resets for these soils. Terraces above the active floodplain, while genetically similar to the floodplain, are older land surfaces and exhibit more development features.\n\nThese soil forming factors continue to affect soils even on "stable" landscapes. Materials are deposited on their surface, and materials are blown or washed away from the surface. Additions, removals, and alterations are slow or rapid, depending on climate, landscape position, and biological activity.\n\nWhen mapping soils, a soil scientist looks for areas with similar soil-forming factors to find similar soils. The colors, texture, structure, and other properties are d
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water in form of seas ,river,oceans,pond etc
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not sure .\nI do know that It is known in the US as "Safe Harbour"\n to my way of thinking, the watershed is just a measurement  or a bridge that divides two distinct areas. \n\nthe dictionary says:\n [edit] Etymology\nwater + shed, calque of German Wasserscheide, from German Wasser, water, from Proto-Germanic *watar, from Proto-Indo-European *wodor/*wedor/*uder-, from Proto-Indo-European root **wed-, + German Scheide divide, from Proto-Germanic *skaithanan, from *skaith divide, split, from Proto-Indo-European base *skei-, to cut, to split\n[edit] Noun\nWikipedia has an article on: \nWatershedSingular\nwatershed\n  Plural\nwatersheds\n \n\nwatershed (plural watersheds)\n\n1.A region of land within which water flows down into a specified body, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean; a drainage basin or catchment basin. \n2.The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins. \n3.(UK) The time after which material of more adult nature (violence, swear words, sex) may be broadcast on television or radio. \n4.A critical point marking a change in course or development
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I am in 5th grade and I just did a school project researching Samuel de Champlain. I don't quite remember but do google it or go on www.ask.com and it's ask jeeves and ask him. I'm sorry I don't remember. Best wishes for the A you want!
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First of all, thanks for the link about the world's oldest chimpanzee Cheetah, that was interesting and so is your this question. \n\nWell, I cannot answer specifically about Niagara Falls ecosystem as I have never been there but, I'll try to provide some info about the typical natural "terrain near a waterfall" ecosystem.\n\nWe can classify such an ecosystem in two broad categories-\n\n1- A little slopy waterfall with a lower intensity flow and lesser amount of water.\nIn India (where I live), such waterfalls can be seen in the lower parts of Himalayas. These are mostly formed by the smaller tributeries of a river.\nEcosystem-\nThe terrain is rocky as the flow of water isn't intense enough to soften up the soil, so, the vegetations are scarce near it BUT, one might find some herbal outgrowths in the slits in the rocks. The abundance of moisture leads to the blooming of some algal, fungal, moss forms. Lichens are also found abundantly there. The chances of finding an animal form there are very low as the water content isn't enough to support enough nutritive stuff for the animals. The animal forms found mostly there are fleas, small frogs and hopping insects.\n\n\n2- A steep waterfall, abundant water, high intensity flow.\nSuch waterfall is generally made by a river/tributory in the first stage of its course.\nThe terrain near a steep waterfall can again be classified into two types-\na) Terrain behind the fall.\nIt is rocky and is same as the terrain near a slopy waterfall.\nb) Terrain around and below the fall.\nIt is muddy and grassy. As the sediments washed by the river or tributory get deposited all around the fall. The most obvious vegetation there is- grass type. The ground is slippery due to the Lichen, algal and moss out-growths. The animal forms most abundantly found in such an ecosystem are bigger (in size) species of frogs and toads, hopping insects like grasshoppers, crickets etc, other amphibians, small fishes, fish-eating animals, some insect-eating birds (e.g. songbirds) etc.
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I live in Lockport,Niagara County New York, which is right on the escarpment that runs all along the county. I have never heard of the escarpment constuction but as far as I know about the escarpment, it was built by glaciers in some ice age. I could not tell you which one but a seach of glacial landscaping might provide the aswer.
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body of water (industrial centres nearby)\n\nLake Michigan (Chicago, Gary, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Green Bay)\nLake Erie (Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo)\nAtlantic Ocean (New York, Boston, Charleston, Washington D.C.)\nPacific Ocean (Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland)
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check it out\n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lake/2812/bcpincushion.html
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It's called Blazon Gap. It's a natural feature. The ridge is Oyster Ridge.
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The French explorer Champlain claimed the area around Lake Champlain for the French in 1609.  Champlain gave the mountains the appellation of les Verts Monts (the Green Mountains).\n\n"Verts Monts" eventually became "Vermont" and its nickname remained the Green Mountain State.
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Here's one:\n\nhttp://www.dnr.sc.gov/water/envaff/river/gr_pee_deemap.htm
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One.  Bassenthwaite Lake is the only body of water in the Lake district with the word "Lake" in its name!\n\n(Well, I assumed it had to be a trick question!)