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Water Resources Final Exam Part 1 With Questions And 100% SURE ANSWERS
Terms in this set (16)
The level of clarity or murkiness in the water from suspended sediment. Suspended sediment
What is Turbidity? Why is it a pollution concern?
can retain heat which warms waters and reduces dissolved oxygen. Also can clog fish gills.
When you can cleary delineate where a pollutant came from. Fukashima radioactive pollution
What is point source pollution? 2 examples?
and bp oil spill.
What is baseflow? What is a stream that has portion of streamflow that comes from "the sum of deep subsurface flow and delayed shallow
baseflow all year? subsurface flow". It should not be confused with groundwater flow. - perennial stream.
Which federal agency maintains the large U.S.G.S. - United States Geological Survey.
network of stream gages in the United States?
Hydrologically, what is the significance of the To the east of the 100th Meridian, average annual precipitation is in excess of twenty inches.
100th meridian in the united states? What impact When an area receives more than twenty inches of precipitation, irrigation is often not
does this hydrologic boundary have on human necessary. Thus, this line of longitude represented the boundary between the non-irrigated
activity? east and irrigation-necessary west.
Why is the type of pollution hard to reduce? 1000+ farms in a given area. It is hard to reduce because w/o knowing who is doing the
When it cannot
polluting beenforce
we can't directlythat
targeted to oneit distinct
they clean up. polluter. Either it is leeched into the soil
What is meant by nonpoint source pollution? and into the water like some lead cases or nutrient pollutants which could be from 1 of the
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Water Resources Final Exam Part 1 With Questions And 100% SURE ANSWERS
Terms in this set (16)
The level of clarity or murkiness in the water from suspended sediment. Suspended sediment
What is Turbidity? Why is it a pollution concern?
can retain heat which warms waters and reduces dissolved oxygen. Also can clog fish gills.
When you can cleary delineate where a pollutant came from. Fukashima radioactive pollution
What is point source pollution? 2 examples?
and bp oil spill.
What is baseflow? What is a stream that has portion of streamflow that comes from "the sum of deep subsurface flow and delayed shallow
baseflow all year? subsurface flow". It should not be confused with groundwater flow. - perennial stream.
Which federal agency maintains the large U.S.G.S. - United States Geological Survey.
network of stream gages in the United States?
Hydrologically, what is the significance of the To the east of the 100th Meridian, average annual precipitation is in excess of twenty inches.
100th meridian in the united states? What impact When an area receives more than twenty inches of precipitation, irrigation is often not
does this hydrologic boundary have on human necessary. Thus, this line of longitude represented the boundary between the non-irrigated
activity? east and irrigation-necessary west.
Why is the type of pollution hard to reduce? 1000+ farms in a given area. It is hard to reduce because w/o knowing who is doing the
When it cannot
polluting beenforce
we can't directlythat
targeted to oneit distinct
they clean up. polluter. Either it is leeched into the soil
What is meant by nonpoint source pollution? and into the water like some lead cases or nutrient pollutants which could be from 1 of the
1/2
