Fentin's Geography Chapter 4 on Water
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- How many planets in the solar system have water?
- Only earth has liquid water
- What produces more electricity than any other hydroelectric dam in the United States?
- Grand Coulee Dam in Washington
- This is the watering of land through pipes, ditches, or canals.
- Irrigation is watering of land
- What three states are among the nations most important agricultural producers?
- Texas, California and Arizona
- Give two reasons why industry could not function without water
- Production of electricity and transportation to move cargo are necessary for industry
- What is the advantage of transporting bulk cargo such as oil and grains by water
- By water is the cheapest way to transport grain and oil
- What is causing our water resources to become more vulnerable?
- Pollution from cities, farms, and industrial wastes dumped into our water
- What threatens our fish and affects our plants and animals
- water pollution
- Without water, what would happen to the Earth's temperature and why?
- The water on the earth controls the temperature by lowering or raising it. Without water, the earth would dry up and nothing could survive and the temperature would rise dramatically
- What drives the hydrologic cycle?
- Solar energy drives the hydrologic cycle
- What is it called when plants give off water vapor through their leaves?
- Transpiration is when plants give off water through their leaves
- What is the difference between a lake and a sea?
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Seas join oceans and are smaller bodies of salt water
Lakes are separate from oceans and seas and are fresh water - What formed the Great Lakes?
- Glaciers
- What effect can large lakes have on the local climate?
- They moderate (keep it near the same temperature) the local climates making longer growing seasons
- What is a wetland?
- Wetlands are land areas that become flooded for part of the year. They include coastal marshes, wooded swamps, bogs, bottomlands.
- What is the name of one of the best known wetlands in the U.S.?
- Everglades in Florida
- What is the major source of ground water?
- precipitation from rain or melting snow
- How do we tap into the ground water called the water table?
- The water table is the top of the saturated (holding all it can) zone and to get to it, we have to drill a well
- If a regions usffers a drought, what happens to the water table?
- The top of the water table will be lower in the ground.
- What is the largest geographic feature on Earth?
- Pacific Ocean
- What are the smaller saltwater bodies connected to the oceans called? Name three
- Seas are small saltwater bodies connected to the oceans. Three seas are : Mediterranean Sea, Coral Sea, Caribbean Sea
- What is the name of the saltwater bodies near coasts that extend into land? Name three
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Gulfs are saltwater bodies near coasts. Three are:
Gulf of Mexico Gulf of Alaska Persian Gulf - Where would you find the greatest ocean depth on the planet?
- Mariana Trench in the North Pacific Ocean has the greatest depth
- What are the most common material found in sea water and why?
- Salts
- Since it is possible to remove salt from sea water why don't we do it more often?
- It is a very expensive process to remove salt from sea water
- On a daily basis, the temperature of the ocean water changes by how many degrees?
- less than one degree
- How many gallons of precipitation fall on the U.S. each day?
- 4,300 billion gallons of water
- Which category requires the least amount of fresh water each day?
- ?????
- The Nile River is associated with what great civilization?
- Egyptian
- The Huang River is associated with what great civilization?
- Chinese
- The Tigris and Euphrates River is associal with what great civilization?
- Africans
- The Ganges River is associated with what great civilization?
- India
- How many people lack even the most rudimentary delivery system for clean water?
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- Lack of access to safe drinking water alone results in the deaths of ....million people a year
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- More people have died from .... in the lst 10 years than have been lost to armed conflict since World War II
- ?????
- What body of water has lost two-thirds of its volume in the last 10 yrs.
- ???
- What are the water borne diseases?
- ???
- Where do the vast majority of the world's poorest and hungriest people live?
- ???
- The number of people lacking adequate santiation in the world is 2.4 billion or ... of the world's population.
- ???
- What percentage of the human body is made up of water?
- 70%
- This is the physical system made up of all the earth's water
- Hydrosphere
- What is the name of the saltwater bodies near coasts that extend into land?
- gulf
- On a daily basis, the temperature of ocean water changes by how many degrees?
- Less than one degree
- Water is unique. It is the only substance that can exist as a solid, a liquid and...
- a gas
- The circulation of water among parts of the hydrosphere is called?
- the hydrologic cycle
- The ................... ................... is the largest fresh water lake system in the world.
- The Great Lakes
- What percent of the earth's water is salt?
- 97%
- Approximately what percent of the earth's surface is covered with water?
- 75%
- This is the watering of land through pipes, ditches, or canals
- Irrigation
- What percent of the earth's fresh wawter is locked in ice caps or glaciers?
- ??
- Approximately how many gallons of water does thea verage American family use per day?
- ???
- Approximately how many gallons of water does the average person use each day?
- ???
- What percentage of the world's sewage is poures straight into rivers and other water sources?
- ???