Quench your Thirst | When It Rains | H2Problems | Fight for your water (countries and year) | Sick of It |
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What is hydrogen and oxygen
The basic elements that make up water
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What is precipitation
Liquid and solid _____ falls from the atmosphere to the land and ocean.
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What is Flooding?
When a river's discharge cannot be contained within its normal channel
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What is France, Belgium and Netherlands: 2000
Disgruntled chemical plant workers dump sulfric acid into river
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What is sewage?
Threatens public health, causes enrichment and high biochemical oxygen demand
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What is polarity
The considered properpties molecules in water
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What is runoff
The movement of fresh water from precipatition and snowmelt to rivers, lakes, wetlands and the ocean
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What is floodplains?
Areas bodering river channels that may flood
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What is Ethopia and Kenya: 2006
More than 40 people killed in clashes over water and grazing land
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What is disease-causing agents
Cholerea, dysentry, typhoid, hepatitis, and poliomyelitis all can occur from toxic catalysts
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What is negative
The O charge at the end of the olecule
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What is non-renewable source?
Ground water is a considered a certain source because it takes 100's of years to form.
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What is irrigation
Farmer's use this to increase agricultural productivity of arid and semi-arid lands
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What is North and South Korea: 2009
Released large volume of water from a dam, causing flash flooding
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What is sediment pollution?
This type of pollution reduces light penetration, limiting photosynthesis and disrupting food chain, clogs gills and feeding structure
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What is chemical
The attraction forms weak ____ bonds between the H2O molecules
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What is aquifers
The supply of freshwater that is stored in underground resivoirs
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What is Arid lands are deserts and semi-arid lands recieve rainfall with long periods of droughts
The difference between semi arid lands and arid land is ______
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What is China and Tibet: 2008
Politcal crackdown threatens access to a certain country' water resources
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What is Inorganic plant and algal nutrients
Stimulate growth of excess plants and algae, which disrupts the natural balance between producers and consumers
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What is the physical properties of water
HIgh freezing/melting point, high boiling point, and the ability to act like a solvent
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What is groundwater recharge
The process of water movement to aquifers
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What is groundwater mining
Results from removal of groundwater faster than it can be recharged by precipitation or melting snow
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What is Mali, Burkina Faso: 2012
Border clashes over broken agreement to share water and pasture kills more 30.
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What is Radioactive substances
increases the risk of many different cancers and fetal development
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