Drought in Georgia
Student Quiz
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*Limited to those students whose teachers have taught them lessons from the Drought in Georgia Unit.
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Please complete the following:
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Answer only the questions from the lessons which you have
experienced in your classroom. Select below:
Lesson 1: What is Drought? Perspectives and Definitions of Drought
Lesson 2: Who Shut off my Water? Cause and Effects of Drought
Lesson 3: Investigating Drought. Scientific Processes for Determining Drought
Lesson 4: Understanding the Part We Play. Outdoor Water Use and Conservation |
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LESSON 1 :
What is Drought? Perspectives and Definitions of Drought |
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Only answer these questions if you have had this lesson in class: |
| 1. If all the water on Earth measured 100 mls, how many mls would be available, usable water? |
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| 2. During times of drought, a greater percentage than normal of available usable water is contained as a gas in the atmosphere instead of in liquid form where it would be part of lakes, streams, rivers, and underground water sources that people could use. |
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| 3. What is a farmer most concerned about a drought affecting? |
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| 4. To a meteorologist a drought is an extended period of decreased streamflow. |
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| 5. What do you call the group of people who make sure that drinkable water is available to you when you turn on your faucet? |
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| 6. Drought affects crops, drinking water supplies and streamflows. |
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LESSON 2:
Who shut off my Water? Cause and Effects of Drought
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Only answer these questions if you have had this lesson in class: |
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The water cycle has no starting point. But, we'll begin in the oceans, since that is where most of Earth's water exists. The sun, which drives the water cycle, heats water in the oceans. Some of it evaporates as vapor into the air. Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere, along with water from evapotranspiration, which is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. The vapor rises into the air where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Snowpacks in warmer climates often thaw and melt when spring arrives, and the melted water flows overland as snowmelt.
Most precipitation falls back into the oceans or onto land, where, due to gravity, the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers in valleys in the landscape, with streamflow moving water towards the oceans. Runoff, and ground-water seepage, accumulate and are stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers, though. Much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes aquifers (saturated subsurface rock), which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface-water bodies (and the ocean) as ground-water discharge, and some ground water finds openings in the land surface and emerges as freshwater springs. Over time, though, all of this water keeps moving, some to reenter the ocean, where the water cycle "ends" ... oops - I mean, where it "begins." |
| 1. After reading the selection above, determine which part of the water cycle is indicated by the letter "B" on the map. |
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| 2. Simply defined, a drought is a significant deficit in moisture availability due to greater than normal sunlight. |
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| 3. According to the map of average annual precipitation in Georgia below, the majority of the state receives ____ inches of precipitation each year. |
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| 4. According to the map below, some areas of the state of Georgia are experiencing exceptional drought. |
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5. How did a recent drought affect the survival of endemic striped bass, Morone saxatilis, in Lake Blackshear?
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6. Trees have developed methods of surviving long periods with little available water.
Name the type of tree that drops its leaves in order to conserve water. |
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| 7. For farmers, why isn't irrigation a good, permanent solution to drought? |
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| 8. Some scientists estimate that the drought in Australia is the worst that the country has seen in how many years? |
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LESSON 3:
Investigating Drought: Scientific Processes for Determining Drought |
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Only answer these questions if you have had this lesson in class: |
1. A scientist who studies the prevailing weather conditions of a place, including climate data, the analysis of causes of the differences in climate,
and the application of climate data to the solution of specific problems
is a/an _____ . |
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| 2. Based on the severity of drought reflected by indicators of moisture, including groundwater levels, streamflows, reservoir levels, rainfall in the last 3, 6, and 12 months and expected precipitation in the next 90 days, the Georgia Department of Agriculture makes a decision to (or not to) put water-use restrictions in place. |
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| 3. What is it called when a scientist makes an "educated guess" to answer a research question such as, "How do we determine if Georgia is in a drought situation?" |
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| 4. The scientific inquiry process is complete when a scientist shares the research question and a hypothesis with the world. |
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| 5. Scientists use a piezometer to read _____ and _____ within a soil sample. |
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LESSON 4:
Understanding the Part We Play: Outdoor Water Use and Conservation |
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Only answer these questions if you have had this lesson in class: |
| 1. A water _____ is a term used by water managers to describe an accounting of where water originates and where and how it is used. |
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| 2. Most Georgians get the water they use at home from a river system. |
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| 3. Water use can increase _____ during the summer months as a the result of outdoor watering. |
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| 4. The water utility determines how much water your family uses by estimating how many people are in your house and the number of toilets. |
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5. Read the following selection from an expository composition.
What organizational pattern did the writer use? |
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Plants need 1 inch of water every 7 to 10 days to stay healthy. Try these 5 to help them thrive!
Water only once a week. When it hasn’t rained, a deep soaking every week will provide your plants with plenty of moisture.
Soak, don't sprinkle. When you water, aim the nozzle at the base of plants so more water will reach the roots.
Don't water in the heat of the day. You will only lose water to evaporation. If you have an automatic system, set it to come on in the early morning hours between 4 a.m. and 10 a.m.
Turn off sprinkler systems when it rains. Install an inexpensive rain sensor shut-off switch.
Mulch! Using pine straw, bark chips or ground hardwood mulch on the roots of plants and trees helps the soil retain water |
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6. Work the following problems and calculate how much the household would pay for water in one year.
Water Meter Reading 2 0078150
- Water Meter Reading 1 0076400
Gallons per week = 1750 |
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a. 1750 gallons per week x 4 weeks in a month = _____ gallons per month.
b. $2.29 per thousand gallons per month divided by 1,000 gallons = $ _____ per gallon per month.
c. _____ gallons per month x $ ______ per gallon per month = $ _______ per month.
d. $ _____ per month x 12 months per year = $ _____per year. |
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| 7. The best time to water plants is in the heat of the day. That is when the water will reach the plants most effectively and efficiently. |
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8. Using pine straw, bark chips or ground hardwood mulch on the roots of plants and trees helps the soil retain _____.
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