Geography 1011: Homework 3 - Colorado River Landscapes and Water, Assignments of Philosophy

Download Geography 1011: Homework 3 - Colorado River Landscapes and Water and more Assignments Philosophy in PDF only on Docsity! Geography 1011 - Landscapes and Water Fall 2022 Homework #3 Due date: This homework is due by 5 pm Mountain time on November 2nd. Submit your homework as a pdf or a word document (we cannot grade it if it the homework is a pages file or any other file) to receive credit for the homework. Make sure to write your answers in your own words. Write short answers to the questions in your own words. Part 1: Questions 1 and 2 refer to the 8 min. movie Into the Delta: A Study of the Colorado River Basin: https://vimeo.com/300184558 also available here: https://videopress.com/v/EozyFIC5 Question 1 a) What is the name of the water body into which the Colorado River naturally drains? Today, approximately how many miles from that water body does the river end? b) What is the reason for the Colorado River no longer reaching the sea? Question 2 a) How many U.S. States depend on water from the Colorado River and its tributaries? b) When the river’s water was allocated among these States, what was the estimated average annual flow of the Colorado River? What is the current average annual flow of the Colorado River? c) In 2018, how much Colorado River water reached Lake Powell and how much was released downstream from the dam? d) In a sentence or two, please discuss the possible implications of multiple dry years like 2018