Chapter 7 Water: Hydrologic Cycle and Human Use

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Chapter 7Water Hydrologic Cycle and Human Use
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Lake Erie Land Use
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South Florida Everglades

• Historically Free-flowing
  river of grass extending from the Kissimmee
  chain of lakes to Florida Bay.
• Since late 1800s Construction of some 3,000 km
  of canals and levees interrupting the Everglades'
  natural sheetflow and eliminating more than half
  the Everglades wetlands.

SeaWiFS April 1999
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Vegetable farming
Miami
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Fig 7-1
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Fig 7-3
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Ogallala aquifer
Fig 7-16. Exploitation of an aquifer
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Fig 7-4
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Fig 7-6
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Fig 7-7. Rain shadow.
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Fig 7-5. Global precipitation
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Fig 7-8. Water balance in the hydrologic cycle
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Changing the Earths surface
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Fig 17-2. Major categories of pollution and some
activities that cause them.
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Fig 7-18. Saltwater intrusion
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Source U.S.G.S.
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Fig 7-11. Human use of water
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