Climate
What instrument measures pressure?
What is a barometer
When groundwaters percolate to the surface, they create these water sources. They are usually great for drinking water.
What are springs
Water is composed of these two elements
What is Hydrogen and Oxygen
The process of water turning from a liquid into vapour
What is evaporation
A water-bearing rock that readily transmits water to wells and springs.
What is an aquifer
How do you tell how much of water there are in a snowpack
What is by measuring its Snow Water Equivalent (SWE)
The percentage of open space within an unconsolidated sediment or a rock.
What is Porosity
A partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water where freshwater mixes with saltwater.
What is an Estuary
a quantitative estimate of the amounts of water in these storages and flows
What is a water budget
The area of land that is drained by a river is called
What is a watershed
A circular diagram showing distribution of wind speed and direction.
What is wind rose
This is the name given to the ability for groundwater to replenish over time
What is recharge
A landscape formed by the dissolution of soluble bedrock (like limestone) by water
What is Karst
The interface between land and flowing surface water
What is the Riparian Zone
Water that is safe to drink is called
What is Potable
This instrument is designed to simultaneously measures absolute carbon dioxide and water vapor, air temperature, barometric pressure, three-dimensional wind speed, and sonic air temperature.
What is IRGASON
When water is drawn up from below ground quickly, it can cause the water table to sink in the nearby area, creating one of these.
What is a cone of depression
These two things cause metamorphic rocks to form
What is Heat and Pressure
The point representing the channel's maximum capacity before flooding.
What is bankfull width
The name of the step in the drinking water treatment process that removes pathogens?
What is Disinfection
This phenomenon are the largest "rivers" of fresh water on Earth, transporting on average more than double the flow of the Amazon River.
What is Atmospheric river
one thousand liters per second of water flowing continuously would equal how many cubic meters of water per day?
what is 86,400
Particles in a flowing fluid (usually water) that are transported along the stream bed.
What is Bed load/suspended load/wash load
A dimensionless quantity that helps predict fluid flow patterns in different situations by measuring the ratio between inertial and viscous forces.
What is a Reynolds Number?
This is fed by mineral-rich surface or ground water and is a peatland
What is a Fen