Physical Properties of Water
What is the study of the relationship of the human and nonhuman worlds over time called?
Environmental history
What is the study of tree rings to determine changes in the weather and climate?
Dendrochronology.
The name of a brown soil-like deposit formed by the buildup of partially decomposed vegetable matter.
Bonus points if you can tell me what it's good for.
Peat.
It was used a fuel and had the effect of lowering the land and creating drainage basins filled with water.
What is the name of the slow moving suburban river flowing from South Dakota to western Texas that 100 meters underground and allowed American agriculture to prosper despite sparse rainfall.
The Ogallala Aquifer.
Why is 2.5% of the earth’s fresh water is unavailable?
It is in the polar ice caps, glaciers or is highly polluted or located too far under the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
Why is water constantly changing forms?
The water cycle.
The silk road helped lead to the spread of what bacteria?
Yersinia pestis
Why would the English parlement pass a general draining act to reclaim inundated lands.
To make money.
What is the name of the dams that can produce hydroelectricity that was sold commercially?
Cash register dams.
What was the new method of desalinizing water during the presidency of John F. Kennedy called? Extra points if you know how it works.
Reverse-osmosis (RO) filtration. Seawater is forced across a barrier that filters out the larger salt molecules and allows the water molecules to pass through.
What shape do water molecules arrange themselves into when it freezes?
A hexagon.
What is the name of any culture having an agricultural system that is dependent upon large-scale government-managed waterworks?
Hydraulic civilization
What factors lead to "The Great Stink"?
The lack of a sewer system, and the rejection of public baths.
What percent of the Arabian Aquifer System was used to grow crops and raise animals?
90%
How did the Soviet Union plan on showing the viability
of rerouting the vast Siberian rivers?
By detonating three nuclear fusion bombs so as to fashion a canal.
What are some other chemical compounds that share some of water’s unusual qualities? (name at least 2 out of the 3)
Ammonia (NH3), Methane (CH4), super-pressurized CO2,
What did ancient greece manipulate water flows for?
To supply steady streams of water for drinking and domestic use to Greek urban dwellers.
What does LMEST stand for?
The Late Modern Energy System Transition.
What is the accumulation of a chemical in or on an organism when the source of the chemical is solely water?
Bioconcentration.
Why does iceberg towing seem less feasible now and in the future?
Climate change is melting icebergs at a rapid rate.
At water percent of water loss in the body leads to mental impairment?
4%
How did water influenced Roman and Greek environmental degradation?
Soil erosion caused by deforestation.
What did the LMEST effect? (six total answers)
Factory labor, industrial processes, landscapes, land usage, human life and water.
What was the effect of mercury poisoning in Japan first called and how did the poioening effect people?
Dancing cat disease, and it caused brain damage.
What can competition for subsurface waters lead to?
Unsustainable exploitation for water, or a winner-take-all approach to the resource base.