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Rivers & Groundwater

The Water Cycle, Stream Erosion, and Water Beneath The Surface

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What are the income of Earth's water budget? Preciptation
What are the expenses of Earth's water budget? Evapotranspiration and runoff.
What are some personal(individual or family) uses of water? About 95,000 L (20,890.5 gal) of water each year.
What happens to 90% of the water used by cities and industry? Why is it bad? It goes to rivers and oceans as waste water. It pollutes and can harm plants and animals.
How much of the Earths surface is covered by water? 70%
How much of the Earths surface is fresh water? 3%
What is the desalination? a process of removing salt from ocean water
Some of the different watersheds we live in White River, Lake Michigan, Great Lakes, Atlantic Ocean
Suspended Load silt and sand
Bed load rocks of all sizes
dissolved load chemicals dissolved in the water (salt, nitrates, phosphorus)
What is the effect of steam gradient on its discharge? Head waters usually steep. Mouth of stream usually flatter.
What does a braided stream look like? is composed of multiple streams that divide and rejoin around sediment bars.
Whats an aquifer? A body of rock or sediment water can store.
Permeable Rock type Samstone
Impermeable Rock type Clay
Two zones of an aquifer Saturation and aertion
How does a perched water table form? trapped above an imperemable rock layer
Example of recharge zone Near the ocean
How does a cone of depression form? groundwater is pumped from a well
What causes water to be pushed up through an artesian well? Gravity
What is a geyser? You can have a hot spring and it erupts periodically from surface pools.
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