Floods
It is possible for a drought to occur after a flood (true/false)
What is true?
People had to shower here during the drought in East Porterville, CA
What is a church?
The process of the water cycle when liquid turns into a gas
What is evaporation?
The hole in this layer of the atmosphere
What is the ozone layer?
This is the main cause of evaporation occurring in the atmosphere.
What is increased temperatures/heat?
Icebergs/glaciers affect ocean levels this way
What is melting and rising ocean levels?
This is one way that groundwater storage will be depleted quickly by humans
What is more pumping than refill?
The process in the water cycle where water, having condensed in clouds, falls back to Earth, driven by gravity when droplets get too heavy
What is precipitation?
One cause of increasing temperatures
What is (Pollution, greenhouse gases, fossil fuels, human activity)?
The 2 main gases in the air
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
This factor caused the floods in Vicksburg as well as many other floods
What is high amounts of rainfall?
The accessibility of groundwater is this (hint: where does groundwater exist?)
What is almost everywhere as long as you dig deep enough?
This component of the water system is measured using tide gauges and satellites (5 water sources from yesterday)
What are sea levels?
A main human cause of increasing temperatures
What is pollution?
These are two things that are found in the air that are bigger than a molecule (What is Air? article)
What is pollen, spores, ash, dust, pollution?
The cause of coastal floods and storm surges is this
What is ocean water being pushed onto land/flooding onto land?
PDSI stands for
What is the Palmer Drought Severity Index?
Groundwater is not affected immediately by air temperatures because of this
What is it is stored deep under the surface and insulated from temperature?
This happens to Glaciers and snowpack in warmer years.
What is melting/losing more ice than snow that they gain?
Relative humidity means this
What is the amount of water capacity the air can hold?
Glaciers provide freshwater to humans and animals this way
What is melting and releasing freshwater into lakes and rivers?
Groundwater differs in age by this much. (how young can it be/how old can it be?
What is a few hours to thousands of years?
The definition of snowpack
What is the amount of snow built up on the ground?
The overall idea of increased temperatures can be summarized by this term
What is global warming?
A relative humidity of 67% means this (What is Air? article)
What is that the air is at 67% capacity of water vapor it can hold AT THAT TEMP