Created by Olivia Gniadek
about 6 years ago
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Why do we need to monitor aquatic ecosystems?
What are the benefits of dams?
What are the tradeoffs of dams?
What causes salinity?
What is primary salinisation?
What is secondary salinisation
What is salinity
What is sodicity
How is salinisation linked to land clearing
What are the management actions are available to counter salinity?
Why are rivers regulated
How does this impact the hydrology?
What are the environmental benefits can be achieved by the return of river flow?
What is a natural flood
What is watering with a regulator or pump
What conditions lead to algal blooms in the river Torrens?
What management options are available to improve water quality in the catchment and the lake?
What is a point source
What is diffuse pollution
Describe how mining has impacted on water quality with particular reference to heavy metals and acid mine drainage?
Draw a conceptual model of the hydrological cycle including groundwater?
What are the imputs to the hydrological cycle
What are the major outputs of the hydrological cycle
Describe how the water budget can inform water allocation
what does the water allocation do
what is the water allocation planning model?
How does the water budget identify whether the system is over-allocated
how does land use change affect the hydrological cycle
why can forestry affect groundwater resources?
What is logical induction
What is logical deduction
Describe some of the effects of Co2 pollution on the marine environment
Given increased nutrient runoff into the ocean causes environmental problems, what solutions could you offer.
What is a top down system
What is a bottom up system
describe why fishing causes cascading change within systems sensitive to changes in predator numbers?