25 Feb What percentage of the world’s water is fresh?

Lab #5: Water, Water, everywhere.

Visit the following website and complete the assignments indicated below

1.       https://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs/drought/1.html

2.       Open student lab

a)       Complete Lab #3: Where is the water?

b)      Complete all sections A, B and C and the optional activity on each page

c)       Answer the following Questions:

PART A: Worldwide Water Distribution

1. What percentage of the world’s water is fresh?

2. Of Earth’s total volume of fresh water, what percentage is frozen?

3. How much of the world’s fresh water is in liquid form on its surface?

4. Which of the five water sources in the chart is readily available for human use?

PART B: Water in Motion

5. Compare the volume of water that evaporates from the ocean in a year with the total amount of water that is in the ocean (from the table in Part A).

PART C: Which Water Can We Use?

6. Keep a list of the features you visit. For each feature, describe at least one concept or action that can help populations confront the impending shortage of freshwater.

d)      Answer all stop and Think questions.

3.       Go to Lab 4#: When Precipitation Patterns Change

https://serc.carleton.edu/earthlabs/drought/4.html

a)      Complete sections A, B, and C.

b)      Answer all stop and think questions.

Questions related to this lab will be included on the final exam

What to turn in.

1.       Summary of Lab 3 and Lab 4 separately

2.       Answers to all STOP and THINK questions

3.       Copies of all graphs, tables and charts to support answers.