Stormwater Management Exam -1 WITH CORRECT ANSWERS.

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Relative humidity is ________________. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Actual vapor pressure divided by saturation vapor pressure
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Vapor pressure deficit is _________________ - ___________________. -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Saturation vapor pressure, actual vapor
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pressure


Plants use _______ to _________ times their body weight in water -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔200,900 |\ |\




Solar constant = solar energy hitting the ____________. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Atmosphere
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Only ____% of the incoming radiation actually makes it to Earth's
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surface. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔47
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Once we have a value for reference evapotranspiration, what do
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we do with that to get the actual evapotranspiration for this
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specific crop on this day?|\ |\ |\ |\ |\




-_________ how your crop or setting relates to the maximum. This
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gives you the _______________.
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-Look at your crop under the ____________.
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,Actual ET= _________ X __________. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Compare, potential ET, actual conditions, ETP, individual |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




What makes water unique?
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It is incredibly __________, it is a great ____________ for the Earth, it
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binds strongly to itself, it is a great _____________, and it ________
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when it feezes. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Stable, thermal storage
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battery, solvent, expands |\ |\




Why is it critical that water stores a lot of energy?
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This lets it be a __________________ for the Earth. - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔thermal storage battery |\ |\ |\




List the 9 elements of the hydrologic cycle - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, infiltration, |\ |\ |\ |\


subsurface flow, runoff, concentrated surface flow, baseflow, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


interflow


List the 4 driving forces of the hydrologic cycle - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Sun, gravity, earth's rotation, earth's residual heat
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The temperature decreases by about _______ deg F with every
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1000ft increase in elevation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔5.4
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, 4 ways in which air lifting occurs - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Cyclonic, frontal, convective, orthographic |\ |\ |\




In high pressure systems, air wants to rise. Lifting of air into low
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pressure causes air to become wetter. - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Cyclonic lifting |\




Warm air goes above cold air b/c cold air is denser - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Frontal |\




Instability caused by uneven heating - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Convective


Mechanical uplifting by mountains - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Orthographic


At least _____ hours must pass without rainfall in order to
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differentiate between storm events. - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔6|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Most concerned with _____________ whenever you have to shove
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water through a choke point - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Rainfall
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intensity


Most concerned with ___________ any time you're concerned with
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storage - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Rainfall depth
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