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Water Resources<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
1. Sketch the hydrologic cycle, labelling each part and indicating with arrows the direction of movement.<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
2. Who are competing users for the water in the reservoir behind a dam? How are they affected seasonally?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
3. Where is most of the world\u2019s water? How is it used?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
4. Be able to sketch a confined aquifer (Bighorn Basin) and nconfined aquifer (Walnut Cove, NC).<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
5. What is the difference between porosity and permeability?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
6. Be able to calculate a groundwater gradient, determining flow direction. Use Darcy\u2019s Law to calculate velocity.<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
7. How do springs form?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
8. How do caves form? What is karst?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
9. What is subsidence? What causes it? What is a sinkhole?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
Energy Resources<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
10. What are three reasons oil prices are at their current level?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
11. What happened at Lake Peigneur?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
12. Explain the process by which petroleum forms.<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
13. Explain the process by which coal forms.<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
14. Where does the U.S. get much of its oil? Why?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
15. Production of oil has greatly increased in the last decade. Why?<\/div>\r\n
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16. The U.S is still the largest consumer of oil in the world, and it imorts approximately 40% of its needs. Yet it also exports oil. Explain.<\/div>\r\n
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17. What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy? Provide examples of each.<\/div>\r\n
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18. Production of solar and wind energy vary considerably over time. Why? What is being done to overcome this problem?<\/div>\r\n
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19. What is the difference between nuclear fission and fusion? What is the current state of each?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
20. What is the link between the OPEC oil embargo and third-world debt?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
21. Provide examples of events in the Middle East that have affected oil production and prices.<\/div>\r\n
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Climate and Weather<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
22. What was the Overland Trail?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
23. What was the Great American Desert? What turned it into part of the breadbasket of the world?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
24. How do deserts form? Know the five ways. Be able to sketch a rain- shadow desert.<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
25. What is the greenhouse effect? Be able to sketch it. What role does carbon dioxide play?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
26. What is the urban heat island effect?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
27. What are the main current issues with respect to global warming? Give three examples of relevant data.<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
28. How has atmospheric carbon dioxide varied since the industrial revolution?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
Soil Resources<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
29. What are the differences between mechanical and chemical weathering? biological?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
30. What are the main processes in soil formation? Be able to sketch a typical soil profile in a humid climate. How would it be different in a desert or rainforest environment?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
31. What are the differences between the weathering of granite and limestone? How do the resulting soils differ?<\/div>\r\n
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32. How have we attempted to overcome soil erosion from water and wind?<\/div>\r\n
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33. How did the extermination of Haiti\u2019s pigs relate to deforestation and soil loss?<\/div>\r\n
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34. What was the Dust Bowl?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
Thought questions<\/strong><\/div>\r\n
1. How does energy policy relate to the growth of terrorism?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
2. How does energy policy relate to the fall of the U.S.S.R.?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
3. How does energy policy relate to global climate change?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
4. If you had a few extra dollars, how could you best use them to make the world a better place?<\/div>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
5. What is the relationship between natural resources and population growth? What are the two most effective ways to slow human population growth?<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
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Water Resources<\/strong><\/div>\n
1. Sketch the hydrologic cycle, labelling each part and indicating with arrows the direction of movement.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2. Who are competing users for the water in the reservoir behind a dam? How are they affected seasonally?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
3. Where is most of the world\u2019s water? How is it used?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
4. Be able to sketch a confined aquifer (Bighorn Basin) and nconfined aquifer (Walnut Cove, NC).<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
5. What is the difference between porosity and permeability?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
6. Be able to calculate a groundwater gradient, determining flow direction. Use Darcy\u2019s Law to calculate velocity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
7. How do springs form?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
8. How do caves form? What is karst?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
9. What is subsidence? What causes it? What is a sinkhole?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Energy Resources<\/strong><\/div>\n
10. What are three reasons oil prices are at their current level?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
11. What happened at Lake Peigneur?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
12. Explain the process by which petroleum forms.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
13. Explain the process by which coal forms.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
14. Where does the U.S. get much of its oil? Why?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
15. Production of oil has greatly increased in the last decade. Why?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
16. The U.S is still the largest consumer of oil in the world, and it imorts approximately 40% of its needs. Yet it also exports oil. Explain.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
17. What is the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy? Provide examples of each.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
18. Production of solar and wind energy vary considerably over time. Why? What is being done to overcome this problem?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
19. What is the difference between nuclear fission and fusion? What is the current state of each?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
20. What is the link between the OPEC oil embargo and third-world debt?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
21. Provide examples of events in the Middle East that have affected oil production and prices.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Climate and Weather<\/strong><\/div>\n
22. What was the Overland Trail?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
23. What was the Great American Desert? What turned it into part of the breadbasket of the world?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
24. How do deserts form? Know the five ways. Be able to sketch a rain- shadow desert.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
25. What is the greenhouse effect? Be able to sketch it. What role does carbon dioxide play?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
26. What is the urban heat island effect?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
27. What are the main current issues with respect to global warming? Give three examples of relevant data.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
28. How has atmospheric carbon dioxide varied since the industrial revolution?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Soil Resources<\/strong><\/div>\n
29. What are the differences between mechanical and chemical weathering? biological?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
30. What are the main processes in soil formation? Be able to sketch a typical soil profile in a humid climate. How would it be different in a desert or rainforest environment?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
31. What are the differences between the weathering of granite and limestone? How do the resulting soils differ?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
32. How have we attempted to overcome soil erosion from water and wind?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\n
33. How did the extermination of Haiti\u2019s pigs relate to deforestation and soil loss?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
34. What was the Dust Bowl?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Thought questions<\/strong><\/div>\n
1. How does energy policy relate to the growth of terrorism?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
2. How does energy policy relate to the fall of the U.S.S.R.?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
3. How does energy policy relate to global climate change?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
4. If you had a few extra dollars, how could you best use them to make the world a better place?<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
5. What is the relationship between natural resources and population growth? What are the two most effective ways to slow human population growth?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"back-matter-type":[27],"contributor":[],"license":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/back-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"metadata":[{"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/151\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"back-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter-type?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pressbooks.dbq.edu\/storyoftheearth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}