Assess students' ability to analyze how urbanization, agriculture, and deforestation affect a local freshwater watershed’s water quality and biodiversity. Students should identify cause-and-effect links (stormwater runoff, nutrient loading, sedimentation, chemical pollutants, temperature changes), interpret simple data or graphs, predict impacts on species and ecosystem services, and propose basic mitigation strategies (riparian buffers, sustainable farming, green infrastructure) at a local scale.