Using 5 senses to gather data - without any interpretation of data your senses gather.
What is an observation?
100
A network of interrelated parts that work together to perform a function
What is a system?
100
An area of land that drains into one body of water.
What is a watershed?
100
When/where water is added to a groundwater system. It has high pressure.
What is recharge?
100
A life-earth-chemical cycle where nutrients/compounds cycle through biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) things
What is a bio-geo-chemical cycle?
200
An explanation of what one observes.
What is an inference (aka hypothesis)?
200
Evaporation and Transpiration
What parts of the hydrologic ALWAYS cleanse water
200
The order of a stream at its headwaters
What is first order?
200
What is the study of the natural world?
What is a natural science?
200
Study of human interactions and institutions.
What is a social science?
300
A guess of what will happen in the future based on one's explanation of observations.
What is a prediction?
300
Infiltration
What part of the hydrologic cycle can cleanse OR contaminate water?
300
A single, identifiable source of pollution from which pollution is discharged.
What is point source pollution?
300
A representation of an idea. An approximation of a system that only has the most essential ideas.
What is a model?
300
When other scientists in the field review the work of another scientist to evaluate whether or not the scientific methodology was sound and whether the intrepretation of results made sense.
What is peer review?
400
Then you need to make a new hypothesis to explain your observations.
What happens if experiment results disprove your hypothesis? (Answer key to ENVT HW pgs. 10-13 is useful here)
400
The upper limit of the saturated zone
What is the water table?
400
Pollution that occurs as water moves over (run-off) and through (infiltration) land and carries pollution with it.
What is non-point source pollution?
400
When what we currently believe influences our perception of new data.
What is a commitment to a prior belief?
400
When the association of value with certain qualities (for example: cost, credentials, brand name) influences one's perception of new data.
What is value attribution?
500
Then you continue to make new predictions based on that hypothesis and continue to test them.
What happens when experiment results fail to disprove your hypothesis? (Answer key to ENVT HW pgs. 10-13 is helpful here)
500
Gravity and Pressure differences.
What affects the flow of groundwater?
500
Generally, the bigger the area of land draining into a stream, the more polluted the water in the stream will be.
Why are higher order stream generally more polluted than lower order streams?
500
The dipping of the water table caused by the low pressure created by the discharge of a well.
What is the cone of depression?
500
run-off and infiltration
Which processes of the hydrologic cycle connect surface water and groundwater?