Water Cycle
Hail, rain, snow and sleet are examples of this.
What is precipitation?
This type of value involves the worth of water in terms of money or resources. It is often assessed based on its ability to generate income, provide jobs or save costs.
What is the economic value of water?
A shortage or lack of something, so that supply is insufficient to meet demand.
What is scarcity?
97% of all water on Earth is found in this body of water.
What is the ocean?
Countries located in this continent include: Spain, Portugal, Greece, Sweden, and Croatia.
What is Europe?
Clouds are formed during this stage of the water cycle.
What is condensation?
This product, which students are not permitted to use during school hours, requires 12,760L of water to manufacture just one of!
A period of time during which rainfall is either totally absent or substantially lower than usual for the area in question, leading to a shortage of water
What is drought?
These bodies of water are large, deep, and surrounded by land. They are much deeper than ponds.
What are lakes?
The Simpson, Gobi, and Sahara are examples of this type of environment.
What is a desert?
Heat causes water to rise up into the air in this stage of the water cycle.
What is evaporation?
This type of value involves the beauty or appearance of water. This is one of the main ways tourists might value water.
What is the aesthetic value of water?
One of the main causes of water scarcity in this Mexican state is the Coca-Cola company using its freshwater supplies to make Coca-Cola.
Where is Chiapas?
In a river system, this is where a stream or river flows into a larger body of water, such as the sea.
What is the river mouth?
This type of graph shows the average temperature and rainfall for a particular location.
What is a climate graph?
This type of rainfall occurs when moist air meets high land (e.g., a mountain) and is forced to rise.
What is orographic rainfall?
This cultural site in a small NSW town has 12 tear-drop shaped pools, and is one of the oldest examples of technology anywhere in the world.
What are the Brewarrina Fish Traps?
More than 1.7 billion people globally drink water from a source contaminated with this.
What is faeces/poo?
Areas where water covers the soil or is present at/near the surface for varying periods of the year.
What are wetlands?
This is a four-digit number used to locate features and places on topographic maps.
What are area references?
The process of water in plants turning from a liquid into a gas.
What is transpiration?
70% of Earth's freshwater is used for this industry.
What is agriculture?
How much is 50L?
Water that infiltrates into the earth is called this
This part of New South Wales suffered one of the worst natural disasters in Australian history when it flooded in 1955.
Where is the Hunter Valley?