review for science test
- fresh water resources
MATERIALS to REVIEW
- your notebook - sections 1-6 look
at all worksheets
- textbook - chapters1- 3 on earth's
water.
- your foldable from chapter 2
- your quiz from chapter 1
- be able to define all the words
that you have recorded
- be able to draw / label an aquifer
(see graphic below)
- where is the Ogallala aquifer
and what is happening to it ? Is it possible to overdraw an aquifer?
- you may want to review this information
on Groundwater -
given as a homework assignment-
- re-read this summary article handed
out in class and here http://water.usgs.gov/public/pubs/FS/OFR93-643
look carefully at the graphics. They will be on the test. You should be able
to explain them and re-label them
- this test will cover the movies,"land
of little rain" and the "the
well runneth dry" seen in class. You have handouts about these movies
GRAPHICS to label and explain
1. Label the graphic from this site.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geographyaction/rivers/
2. this graphic is from USGS,
be able to explain it!!

3. where is the ogallala aquifer - review this map

TOPICS / VOCABULARY to REVIEW practice these
questions
- Groundwater what is it where is it?
- Underground layers - what are they?
Permeable vs. impermeable layers and soil types, name
them how are they alike and different?.
- Water table - what is it? where is it?
- Aquifer - what is it?
- Artesian wells what forms them? where are they found?
- What are our sources of drinking water? here in AZ and
nationally?
- Name the 3 of the major rivers in Arizona.
- What is a watershed? what forms one?
- Lable the parts
of a river system. See graphic section
- Name our local canal.
- What are the 6
water quality tests that we are doing
at the canal? what do they test? why are they important?
- What can be in the water that is unhealthy for us?
- What is the Ogallala aquifer?
- How do wells become polluted?
- Name five sources of groundwater contaminants.
- What is point and non-point source pollution? give an
example of each.
- How can you do to prevent water pollution?
- Why is water a valueable resource? name 5 ways that we
use it.