Resources
What is ground water?
Water stored beneath the earth's surface.
Why is the water cycle called a 'closed system'?
The same water has been circulating since the earliest days of the planet.
What is another name for a catchment?
A drainage basin.
Which continent has the largest number of water stressed countries?
Africa.
What is the motto of La Salle College?
Deo Duce.
What are the 3 types of natural resources?
Renewable
Non-renewable
Continuous
What are the different forms of precipitation?
Rain
Hail
Sleet
Snow
What is surface water?
Precipitation that has fallen to the ground and finds its way into streams, rivers and creeks.
Explain the difference between water scarcity and water stress.
Scarcity is when the demand for water exceeds the amount available.
Stress is the negative effect of limited water supply on people and environments.
What is an onomatopoeia? Give 2 examples.
A figure of speech that sounds like the word it represents, such as boom, hiss, moo
What is another name for an environmental resource?
A natural resource.
What is condensation?
The changing of water vapour into droplets of liquid water in the form of dew, fog or clouds.
What is a watershed?
The point at which precipitation falls and flows into either one of two neighbouring water catchments.
Define 'desalination'.
The process by which salt is removed from ocean water.
Who is the man featured on the A$20?
John Flynn who started the Royal Flying Doctor's Service.
Wind and tides are examples of what type of resource?
Continuous resource.
What percentage of water vapour in the atmosphere comes from the oceans?
About 84%
What is an aquifer?
The layer of soil and rock in which water is found.
On a climate graph, how is temperature represented?
Line graph.
Where would you find Malta?
It is a tiny little island in the Mediterranean Sea.
How are resources distributed across the earth's surface?
Unevenly.
What % of water in the world is freshwater
3%
What is a water table?
The depth at which the soil becomes completely saturated with water.
What and where is the Great Artesian Basin?
The Great Artesian Basin is one of the largest underground freshwater resources in the world. It is Australia’s largest groundwater basin.
It lies beneath parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and New South Wales.
Name any 2 of Ms Calleja's cats.
Francis, Ditto, Cahoots, Quinetta, Nero, Moet, Blakelyn.