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Earth and Science SS
A study stack for the earth and science test on 11-8-18 :))
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Income and Expenses of Earth's water budget? | Precipitation, Snow, rain sleet, and Runoff |
| What are some personal uses of water? | Bathing, Drinking, Dishes. (anything that involves using water) |
| What happens to 90% of the water used by cities and industry? Why is this bad? | It it bad because it becomes waste water and goes into rivers and oceans. |
| How much of the earths surface is covered by water? | 68- 71% |
| How much of the earths water is fresh water? | 3% |
| What is desalination? | The process of removing salt from sea water |
| Name of some different water sheds we live in: | Lake MI, Great lakes, White river |
| Examples of Suspended load: | Silt and sand |
| Bed load: | Rocks |
| Dissolved load: | Salt, Nitrates |
| How does a meander become and oxbow? | An oxbow becomes a meander due to the rivers eroding the bank, leaving a non flowing body of water. |
| What is an Aquifer? | A body of permeable rock that contains groundwater (Rock that stores water) |
| A permeable rock type: | Sandstone |
| An impermeable rock type: | Clay |
| What are the two zones of an aquifer? | The zone of saturation and aeration |
| How does a perched water table form | When there is an impermeable layer of rock above the aquifer |
| An example of a recharge zone | Storm water drains |
| How does a Cone of Depression form? | When ground water is pumped from a well |
| What causes water to be pushes through an artesian well? | Pressure around it |
| What is a Geyser? | A hot spring in which hot water boils, eventually shooting up hot water and steam into the air. |
| Two characteristics of of a healthy river | Turbidity and Dissolved Oxygen |
| Where is the low gradient/ low discharge | The end of a river |
| Headwaters = | High discharge |
| The zone of Aeration is the above the zone of what | Saturation |
| What does a braided stream look like | Rivers and streams going off of each other |
| Things you need to add on to your river system drawing: | Watershed, Divide, tributaries, and the mainstream. |
| What is the effect of stream gradient on its discharge? | The steeper the gradient, the greater the discharge |
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