expensive and grainy - ✔✔If CA was not a part of the US, what would the diet be?
Recycle h20
driven by the Hadley cells
-constant low pressure at the equator.
-high pressure directly above and below the equator (desert, decreased h20)
-heterogenous water distribution.
-solar energy constantly evaporates h20 and evaporated h20 condenses to liquid or solid snow and
ice when it cools. - ✔✔The Hydrologic cycle
ocean - ✔✔Nearly all h20 is...
0.02%
-mostly ground water in the form of a stream/lake - ✔✔How much water is in a form accessible to us
as fresh water?
%
the tibetan plateau - ✔✔the "third" pole
the top of the saturated zone that supplies wells. - ✔✔water table
upper soil layers that hold both air and water - ✔✔zone of aeration
lower zone where all open spaces in sediment and rock are completely filled with water - ✔✔zone of
saturation
Subterranean, porous, water-holding rocks that provide millions of wells with steady flows of water. -
✔✔aquifers
the impermeable beds above and below the water bearing bed in an artesian system - ✔✔aquilude
an aquifer surrounded by a layer of impermeable rock or clay that impedes water flow - ✔✔confined
aquifer
A well in which water rises because of pressure within the aquifer - ✔✔artesian well
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an area lacking groundwater due to rapid withdrawal by a well and lowered water table - ✔✔cone of
depression
0.001% of h20
small compartment
10 day cycle - ✔✔water in the atmosphere
total amount of water taken from a water body
-worldwide: 70% of withdrawl is from agriculture. - ✔✔water withdrawl
catchment basin, all the land drained by a stream or river. - ✔✔watershed
land-locked draining into salt lake, only way out through evaporation, leaving salt. - ✔✔great basin
toilets - ✔✔*biggest domestic use of water
waste water generated from processes such as washing dishes, bathing and laundry that can be
recycled. - ✔✔grey water
any physical, biological, or chemical change in water quality that adversely affects organism or makes
%
water unsuitable. - ✔✔pollution
nickle/heavy metal rich soil, makes flora wack - ✔✔serpentine soil
pollution that comes from a specific site
drain pipe, ditch, seware outfall - ✔✔point source pollution
no specific location where they discharge into a particular body of water.
ex. golf courses - ✔✔non-point source pollution
disease causing - ✔✔pathogenic
Bacteria that live in the intestines (including the colon) of humans and other animals, used as a
measure of the presence of feces in water or soil.
-indicative of other pathogens present - ✔✔coliform bacteria
the amount of oxygen in the water; measures water quality - ✔✔Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
amount of dissolved oxygen consumed by aquatic microorganisms - ✔✔Biochemical Oxygen
Demand (BOD)
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