Why are watersheds important to wildlife?

Answer 1

Watersheds are important to wildlife because they ensure that there is adequate rainfall and ground water. They assist the process through which ground water can evaporate and end up as precipitation once again. Watersheds are also important habitat for fish and other animals that need drink water often.

Answer 2

Watersheds are basically the areas that water flow in order to reach the ocean. For instance, a creek is part of the watershed of the St. Joseph River, which is a part of the Great Lakes Watershed, that is a part of the St. Lawrance Seaway Watershed which filters into the Atlantic. The creeks (headwaters) are the points of highest elevation, that water flows the fastest. All watersheds flow from highest elevation to lowest elevation. Also, there can always be more exact watershed. It's like the measuring cups that stack together. There can always be one smaller. So basically we have watersheds because of a slope in the elevation, causing water to flow downward into bigger bodies of water. A watershed is land that has water under it or running off it goes into the same place. Most of the watershed are contents.

Answer 3

Topography is the main cause of watersheds.

Answer 4

Because it gives us drinking , cooking , bathing water. Also it gives us clean water.