- List advantages and disadvantages of sand being added to the beach to stabilize the shoreline.
- What is the main cause of surface currents? Subsurface currents?
- What force produces tides?
- On average, what is the salinity of seawater (ppt)?
- What causes salinity to decrease?
- What affects density of seawater?
- How much of Earth’s water supply is freshwater?
- Where is largest supply of freshwater located?
- What valley shape would a rapid moving river form as it cuts through a mountain?
- How does the volume of water and the rate of erosion in the stream change as the rate of recharge changes?
- What is a drainage basin?
- What would make the water table rise and fall?
- How does water become groundwater?
- What could happen if groundwater is overused in a coastal area?
- Label the diagram below.
- What are different strategies of preventing flooding?
- Why do we build dams? What are the costs and benefits?
- What are aqueducts and what do they do?
- What is the greatest problem associated with America’s freshwater? Where in the U.S. are we experiencing this problem?
- What irrigation technique offers the greatest conservation of water?
- What is the best economic and environmental way to focus water resource management?
- What is drought? Water Stress? Aridity? Desiccation
- What are consequences of severe drought?
- How does water diversion impact the size of a body of water? Where is this a problem?
- How does thermal pollution affect aquatic environments?
- What is the most common contamination source for freshwater resources?
- What is eutrophication and how does it affect an environment?
- Describe the wastewater treatment process in detail