Colorado RiverColorado River

What is a water What is a water shed?shed?

What watershed do What watershed do we live in?we live in?

An area that gets An area that gets its water from one its water from one source.source.

We live in the We live in the Colorado River Colorado River watershedwatershed

United States Watershed Map

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What is a What is a continental divide?continental divide?

A mountain range that A mountain range that separates two separates two different water sheds.different water sheds.

The Rocky mountains The Rocky mountains are the continental are the continental divide for our country.divide for our country.

We rely on the snow We rely on the snow that falls on the that falls on the western side of the western side of the Rocky mountainsRocky mountains

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What states rely on What states rely on the Colorado River the Colorado River watershed?watershed?

What other country What other country relies on the relies on the Colorado River?Colorado River?

Upper Basin states: Upper Basin states: Colorado, Utah, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Wyoming, New MexicoMexico

Lower Basin states: Lower Basin states: Nevada, Arizona, Nevada, Arizona, California California

MexicoMexico

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Colorado River historyColorado River history

What was the River What was the River like before we put like before we put dams on it?dams on it?

The river was red The river was red with sandstone silt with sandstone silt (Colorado means (Colorado means red)red)

There were no There were no lakeslakes

It flooded once a It flooded once a yearyear

Colorado River Colorado River What is created What is created

when you put a when you put a dam on a river?dam on a river?

What lake was What lake was created when the created when the Hoover Dam was Hoover Dam was built?built?

A lakeA lake

Lake MeadLake Mead

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What are the dams What are the dams and lakes besides and lakes besides Hoover Dam and Hoover Dam and Lake Mead?Lake Mead?

Glen Canyon Dam- Glen Canyon Dam- Lake PowellLake Powell

Davis Dam- Lake Davis Dam- Lake MohaveMohave

Parker Dam – Lake Parker Dam – Lake HavasuHavasu

Dams of the ColoradoDams of the Colorado

Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powell Davis Dam, Lake Mohave

Parker Dam – Lake Havasu