Freshwater Unit Content Sheet - Honors PDF

Freshwater Unit Content Sheet - Honors Freshwater Unit Overarching Objectives: - Students will be able to evaluate the availability of freshwater. - Socioeconomic availability of freshwater - Students will be able to evaluate the importance of freshwater to life and society. Freshw...

Freshwater Unit Content Sheet - Honors Freshwater Unit Overarching Objectives: - Students will be able to evaluate the availability of freshwater. - Socioeconomic availability of freshwater - Students will be able to evaluate the importance of freshwater to life and society. Freshwater Unit Objectives: By the end of this unit, students will be able to define, describe and apply the concepts of: Unit Test 1. Water Cycle a. Create a model of water movement throughout Earth’s systems with appropriate labels for phase changes/modes of transport and identification of reservoirs. b. Describe and measure the qualities of water that makes it unique and able to shape conditions on Earth (specific heat capacity, latent heat, and hydrogen bonds). 2. Groundwater a. Describe and measure the factors that affect movement of water in the ground. b. Describe how soil texture variability impacts water and pollution infiltration. 3. Surface Water: River Systems a. Identify and describe how the boundaries of a watershed / drainage basin on a map are determined. b. Describe the factors that impact how a river transports water and sediment. c. Describe and model how streams and rivers features form and how they change with time. d. Calculate a river’s discharge, area, or velocity and convert unit using dimensional analysis 4. Water as a Resource a. Calculate a complex water budget. b. Distinguish between point and nonpoint source pollution. c. Describe how water quality affects the health of a freshwater ecosystem d. Describe how human activities, specifically land use, alter the flow and quality of the water from land to ocean. Unit Vocabulary: Water Cycle Groundwater Water Cycle Reservoirs Permeability Surface Water Water Cycle Transport Modes Porosity River System Advection Capillary Water Tributary Uptake Aquifer Drainage Basin/Watershed Transpiration Water Table Divide Infiltration Recharge Gradient Sublimation Aquitard/Aquiclude Discharge Deposition / Desublimation Saturated Zone Weathering Evapotranspiration Unsaturated Zone Erosion Soil Texture Triangle Deposition Unique Properties of Water Clay Load Polarity Silt Bed Load Hydrogen Bonds Sand Solution Specific Heat Capacity Pebbles Dissolved Load pH (acidity) Cobbles Suspension Latent Heat Gravel Suspended Load Boulders Competence Watersheds Capacity Watershed Divide Water as a Resource Stage of a Stream Water Budget Point- Source Youthful Deficit Nonpoint-Source Mature Surplus Wastewater Old Age Recharge Solution V-Shaped Valley Usage Reservoir Stream Channel Turbidity Meander Water Quality Index (WQI) Oxbow Lake Dissolved oxygen Point Bar Suspended solids Cut Bank Fecal coliform bacteria Delta Nitrates Natural Levees Phosphates Base Level Temperature Prerequisite Concepts: · Phases of Water (Solid, Liquid, Gas) · Velocity · Solution · Scientific notation