This week in class was all about Water. We talked about everything from our drinking water and the Environmental Protection Agency to the Colorado River and cartograms. It was a very fun and informative week.
Week #9 Vocabulary:
Cartogram: a map in which some thematic mapping variable is substituted for land area or distance.
Water Consumption: the amount of water consumed by an area or population.
Water Conservation: the policies, strategies and activities to manage fresh water as a sustainable resource to protect the water environment and to meet current and future human demand.
Climate Change: a significant and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years.
Irrigation: the artificial application of water to the land or soil.
Week #9 Attachments:
CO River PPT
CO River Basin
CO River Basin Map
Water Audit
Test
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