Name: __________________ S.S. No. ________________ Grade: _____

1. What is the difference between Classical Hydrology and Environmental Hydrology?

2. What is the fundamental parameter in the hydrologic behavior of the Pantanal of Mato Grosso? Why?

3. Explain why the [now defunct] proposed Campo landfill posed a high risk of contamination.

4. Why is the ocean salty? How does sodium chloride accumulate in ocean waters?

5. Why is it a fallacy to state that tropical rainforests such as the Amazon will help in sequestering excess carbon from fossil-fuel burning?

6. Explain the concept of the 800-mm isohyet. How does it adhere to the principle of sustainability?

7. How long are global phosphate resources likely to last? Why is phosphorous important for the functioning of the biosphere? What should societies do to recycle more phosphorous?

8. What is the difference between the River Continuum Concept and the Flood Pulse Concept in river ecology?

9. How can one argue that some floods are good? How can one argue that some levees are bad? What is a levee fuse?

10. How did the early inhabitants of the Llanos de Mojos manage to open the nitrogen cycle? How is harvesting tied to the opening of the nitrogen cycle?

11. Why did EPA concentrate on the chemical part of the integrity triad? What are the other two components of the triad? Which one are civil engineers naturally trained to understand?

12. What is the rationale for the existence of earthmounds in flooded plains? How did the earthmounds in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso and the Florida Everglades form?