Final SWS World of Water Exam 2 Study Guide Questions and Answers Updated
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Final SWS World of Water Exam 2 Study
Guide Questions and Answers Updated
What percent of Florida's total water withdrawals comes from groundwater? -
CORRECT ANSWER-63%
the 3 basic types of Florida rivers - CORRECT ANSWER-Alluvial, black water, spring
fed
Know what a river...
Final SWS World of Water Exam 2 Study
Guide Questions and Answers Updated
What percent of Florida's total water withdrawals comes from groundwater? -
CORRECT ANSWER-63%
the 3 basic types of Florida rivers - CORRECT ANSWER-Alluvial, black water, spring-
fed
Know what a river gradient is. - CORRECT ANSWER-Difference in elevation/lateral
distance between two points
Know why river flow in Florida generally is very slow - CORRECT ANSWER-Low
gradient - low elevation
What percent of the USA's total water withdrawals comes from groundwater? -
CORRECT ANSWER-21%
What percent of Florida's groundwater withdrawn is for domestic use? - CORRECT
ANSWER-52%
What the two factors lead to a doubling of FL population between 1950 and 1970? -
CORRECT ANSWER-mosquito control, air conditioning
How much water is withdrawn daily in Florida? - CORRECT ANSWER-7 billion gal/ day
Limestone is the common name for what compound? - CORRECT ANSWER-Calcium
Carbonate
What is an ion? - CORRECT ANSWER-chemical element that has acquired an
electrical charge {can be (+) or (-)}
Are ions well accommodated or not well accommodated in water? - CORRECT
ANSWER-well accommodated
How are the oceans made salty? - CORRECT ANSWER-water moves across
watersheds and rocks and minerals dissolve
what is precipitation? - CORRECT ANSWER-when two or more oppositely charged ions
come together to form a solid
, How does precipitation apply to limestone formation? - CORRECT ANSWER-In the
ocean Calcium and dissolved CO3 comes together to form calcium carbonate
What is the dominant mechanism by which limestone formations are made? -
CORRECT ANSWER-marine organisms, vertabrates
Why did continental silicon-based materials did not intrude substantially on the platform
for approximately 125 million years? - CORRECT ANSWER-Georgia channel had
current of water that would interrupt downward flow of sediments from mountains
What is the time frame in which the fundamental evolution of the carbonate elements of
the Florida platform occurred? - CORRECT ANSWER-25-125 mya
What are the origins of the carbonate elements in the Florida platform? - CORRECT
ANSWER-base rock
What is the the time period during which the water-bearing elements of the Floridan
aquifer developed? - CORRECT ANSWER-Eocene 50-25 mya
What changes occurred on the continental silicon-based materials that allowed them to
subsequently influence the platform? - CORRECT ANSWER-sea levels lowered & the
Suwanee Current disappeared, & Florida was no longer isolated
How the Floridan aquifer is confined? - CORRECT ANSWER-the water bearing
formation is located between impermeable layers of clay, rock, & shale
confined on bottom by older limestone
confined on top by Miocene clays (24-125 mya)
Given that the Floridan is consolidated, how it is made porous and able to contain and
transmit water? - CORRECT ANSWER-acid dissolution of limestone
Is Florida's principal aquifer system is - CORRECT ANSWER-confined and
consolidated
What is the Karst landscape? - CORRECT ANSWER-topography caused by the
dissolution of soluble rocks
What are the general features of the Karst landscape? - CORRECT ANSWER-Karst
landscapes= underground drainage systems, Examples= sinkholes, springs,
depressions, lakes, FL has an abundance of carbonates on the surface
Why does FL have extensive areas of karst? - CORRECT ANSWER-FL has an
abundance of carbonates on the surface
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