Pictures of the ongoing California drought
Create a google doc named: Your name – IB11 – Droughts – hazards
Define: drought
Define flash floods:
1. Use this link to define, in your own words, the following terms:
- Meteorological drought
- Hydrological drought
- Agricultural drought
- Socio-economic drought
2. Find a map of the global distribution of droughts and their severity, and write a short description of the spacial distribution of droughts.
3. Explain the four physical reasons why droughts are more prominent in certain areas:
- Continentality
- Cold ocean currents
- ITCZ
- Rain-shadow effect
4. Describe:
- the main features of the Palmer Drought Indices and evaluate its efficiency in comparing droughts
- The method of measuring rainfall
5 describe the following characteristics of droughts:
- Frequency
- Duration
- Speed of onset
- Areal extent
- Spatial dispersion
- Regularity
6. Answer questions 19 to 22 in Bishop p. 116.
7. Complete these case study questions
8.California drought
- Santa Barabra County, California
- Santa Ynez River
- Lake Cachuma
- Gibraltar Reservoir
- Jameson Lake
- Rainfall
- Snow fail
- Draining California
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Each of of you will read one article from MSNBC’s California drought special report and briefly explain it to the rest of the class.
If time, read Christopher Ketchan’s Raizing Arizona. (handout)