HW Week of 12.20.17 & 12.21.17

Waterwise Pages 20-25 & Pages 27-33 Questions.

Students have 3 pages to complete the week we return to school.  Due January 12.  You may want to complete this during vacation if you have time.  

Name

Tenorio

Science Period_________

Date

Waterwise Page 20-25 & Page 27-33 Questions


1.  What is a drought?

2.  What are the 5 categories of a drought index?

3.  How do scientist determine global climate patters today?

4.  What is desalination?

5.  Finish the sentence.

Desalination plants ___________________sea water to ________________________water in many regions of the _____________________.

6.  Where is the Desalination plant in CA?

7.  What is Osmosis?

8.  What is Reverse Osmosis?

9.  What does reverse osmosis remove from the Seawater?

10.  What percent of the world’s population will receive their water from deslination by 2025?

11.  What are the steps to use water?

1. 

2.

3

4

5

12.  What is reclaimed water?

13.  If every household in the US installed a bathroom faucet aerator, how much would we save in energy costs? 

14.  When is the best time to water

Outdoors?

15.  What is a water heater?

16.  How much water would an aerator save?

17.  Fill in the sentences.

Run your clothes washer and dishwasher only when it is ________________________.

18.  When washing dishes by hand,

19.  When using the hose to water your landscape, make sure you

20.  Shorten your shower by

21.  Turn off the water while

22.  

1 gallon =  4 ________________ = 8 _______________=16_____________

23.  1 dripping faucet waste gallons of water.

50 homes = _________________________________________

100,000 homes = __________________________________

1 million homes = _________________________________