Mining & Water
What is silver?
The place where groundwater is stored underground.
What is an aquifer?
Name a common type of plant used as groundcover that is a water waster.
What is grass?
Hidden water used to manufacture products.
What is virtual water?
A dry period with little to no rainfall for a long time.
What is a drought?
The giant piles of crushed rock and toxic chemicals left behind by miners
What are tailings?
The speed at which underground desert water moves.
Very slowly, a few inches to a few feet per day.
The best time within a 24-hour day to water your yard.
What is night?
The term used to describe a large amount of water needed to dilute manufacturing pollutants during/after product manufacturing.
What is greywater?
What is the sun?
Name the giant machine mining operations used to crush rock into small pieces.
What is a stamp mill?
Where we in Daggett get our tap water from.
What is a water well?
The name of leaves on cacti (plural of cactus) plants.
What are spines?
What the term "Green Water" refers to
What is rainwater stored in soil used by growing plants?
The form of cooled water vapor in the sky.
What are clouds?
The term "fossil water" is a nickname for this resource
What is desert groundwater?
Name the natural process that turns water into gas after a rainstorm in the high desert.
What is evaporation?
A natural product gardeners spread over dirt around desert plants to block the sun, reduce evaporation, and keep soil moist
What is mulch or what is gravel?
The average amount of water in gallons needed to make one cotton t-shirt.
What is 700 gallons of water?
The term used for landscaping with plants that require very little water.
What is xeriscaping?
Name one toxic chemical used in extracting precious metals from crushed rock.
What is (mercury, cyanide, lead, copper sulfate, arsenic)
The top level or "surface" of underground water beneath the dirt
What is the water table?
The major environmental problem manufacturing and industrial virtual water production can create, and where?
What is water pollution in lakes and rivers?
The total amount of direct and indirect water used to produce a product from start to finish
What is a water footprint?
The percentage of Earth's water that is fresh water available for human use.
What is 3% of Earth's water?