Water Cycle
The heat of the sun moving water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere as water vapor
What is evaporation?
Where most of the worlds water is located
What are oceans?
When there is not enough water resources to meet the demand for water.
What is water scarcity?
A process that removes salts and impurities from saline water sources, like seawater, to produce fresh, drinking water.
What is desalination?
A map that use different intensities of a similar colour to represent differing amounts of a thing.
What is a choropleth map?
The term for water falling from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is Precipitation?
Where most of the worlds freshwater is located
What are glaciers?
Examples include cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhea, hepatitis A, and cryptosporidiosis,
What are water borne diseases?
The name for an artificial barrier that stops or controls the flow of a river.
What is a dam?
What potable water is more commonly known as
Water vapour in the air that cools down and changes to tiny drops of water.
What is Condensation?
The percentage of Earth’s water that is freshwater
What is 3%
The African country that was banned from being the focus of your assignment
What is Namibia?
Filtering waste water so that it can be reused for a variety of purposes.
What is grey water recycling?
Show the typically monthly rainfall and temperature for a location
What are climate graphs?
Some of the precipitation that falls on land returns to the rivers, lakes and oceans
What is run off?
Exists when a population does not have the necessary monetary means to utilise an adequate source of water.
What is economic water scarcity?
The pet that Ms O'Donoghue has
What is a cat called Chairman Meow?
The method of supplying water to dry areas for farming.
What is irrigation?
Weather maps that summarize atmospheric conditions over a large area at a specific time
What are synoptic charts?
The step in the water cycle where water moves through the ground and collects in underground layers
What is infiltration?
A quantity problem exists where there is not enough water - is prevalent in arid regions
What is physical water scarcity?
The critical point when a city's water supply is so depleted that authorities must shut off taps to residents, leading to severe rationing and water collection at distribution points
What is Day Zero?
Uses around 85,000 gallons (approximately 322,000 liters) of water per day
What is ChatGPT?
How the atmosphere behaves over a long period of time
What is climate?