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Water

Due Sunday

 Chapter 7 (Water) as Reference

Directions: 

  • Complete using your textbook to find answers to the following questions.  Next week we will spend going over this information and answering any questions that come up.  Good luck and have fun!  Be sure to look at the grading criteria before and during your work.

Outline Grading Criteria:

  • Outline shows a conscientious effort to be complete and explain the questions posed.  Most answers are correct.

 

  • Student shows depth of answers by explaining, defining, and giving examples where appropriate.  If there is a sentence or less for each question, this grading criterion is not met.

Water (Chapter 7)

  1. What percent of the earth’s water is available to humans for use?  Why?

 

 

  1. Why is fresh water a renewable resource?  What power source brings this water to us?

 

  1. Why is water considered ecosystem capital?

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Is clean water available to all humans?  Explain.

 

 

 

  1. What is green and blue water?

 

  1. Define the following terms in relationship to the hydrologic cycle:

a)     Evaporation

 

b)     Water vapor

 

c)     Humidity

 

d)    Relative humidity

 

f)        Condensation

 

  1. Describe the process of natural water purification. 

 

  1. Draw and explain the rain shadow effect as it occurs in Western Washington.  Include the Cascades, Olympics, Puget Sound, and eastern slopes of the Cascades.

 

 

  1. When water hits the ground it does one of two things.  What are those two things?  Explain each.

 

 

 

  1. Now, describe the hydrologic cycle.  Include the terms evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, percolation, run-off, and groundwater at least.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. When humans build a parking lot or home, how are they affecting the hydrologic cycle?

 

 

  1. How does climate change by global warming effect the hydrologic cycle?  Does this affect humans?

 

 

  1. How does atmospheric pollution affect the hydrologic cycle?

 

 

  1. What percent of freshwater supplies do humans withdraw for irrigation?  Industry? Human use?

 

 

  1. What percent of the world’s population does not have access to clean drinking water?  What is the direct cause of this?

 

 

 

 

  1. Draw a diagram that illustrates how water gets to your home and where it goes after leaving your home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. What is the function of building dams?  (What do we use them for)?

 

 

 

  1. What are the ecological impacts of building dams?  List the main impacts and then use the San Francisco Bay as an example and discuss what has happened there.

 

 

 

  1. Is groundwater considered a renewable resource?  When?  When is it not?

 

 

 

  1. Discuss the following impacts of overdrawing water:

a)     Falling water tables:

 

 

b)     Diminishing surface water:

 

 

c)      Land subsidence and sinkholes

 

  1. Your book says that there are four ways that we could harness more freshwater from the hydrologic cycle to utilize for the increasing population of the world.  Answer the following questions regarding each of the options:

a)     Using the evidence your book gives, is building more dams an appropriate way to solve this problem?

 

 

b)     What is the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968?

 

 

c)      Using the evidence your book gives, is tapping a) renewable and b) nonrenewable groundwater supplies an appropriate way to solve this problem?

 

 

d)     Using the evidence that you book gives, is desalinizing water a feasible way to provide water for people? 

 

 

e)     What is the most common way to irrigate fields in the U.S.?  What are the best alternatives to this (in order to save water)?  Why don’t people use them?

 

 

f)        What do most people in the U.S. use water for in their homes?  Discuss a) low flow toilets b) grey water as ways to reduce water use in homes.