Name Date Lab Assignment 8 Discharge Rivers and Flooding For this lab assignment we will analyze river basin systems in association with their discharge rates and how flood prone they may be PART 1 DISCHARGE RATES River discharge is measured Q W D u Q stands for the discharge W stands for the width D stands for the depth and u stands for the velocity of the river For each hypothetical river below calculate the discharge Calculate each discharge only in seconds unless otherwise specified Calculations for the final result are in m3 s 1 Blue River W 130m D 30m u 3 4m s 2 Green River W 200m D 3m u 5 3m s 3 Red River W 30m D 15m u 1 3m s 4 Orange River W 340m D 45m u 10 4 m s 5 Black River W 5m D 1m u 0 4m s 6 Purple River W 544m D 65m u 4 5m s 7 Neon River W 10m D 10m u 10m s 8 Pink River W 35m D 100m u 5 5m s 9 Maroon River W 45m D 20m u 2 2m s 10 Cyan River W 100m D 23m u 6 4m s PART 2 RIVER DISCHARGES SELECTED RIVER For the selected rivers below list the discharge in cubic meters a second m s You can find the discharge of each selected river on Google Then record the discharge for a minute hour and day 1 Passaic River Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day 2 Hudson River Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day 3 Danube River Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day 4 Rio Grande Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day 5 Volga River Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day 6 Snake River Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day 7 Ohio River Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day 8 St Lawrence River Minute m min Hour m hr Day m day PART 3 RIVER SOURCE LOCATIONS AND ELEVATIONS For this part of the lab I will list select rivers and their sources Open up Google Earth and look up the latitude bottom right corner that is given for each When Google Earth reaches that destination write down the elevation of the source 1 Mississippi River 47 14 23 N 95 12 27 W 5 Passaic River 40 45 43 N 74 34 42 W 2 Hudson River 44 5 28 N 74 3 21 W 6 Missouri River 44 32 31 N 111 27 53 W 3 Rio Grande River 37 47 52 N 107 32 18 W 7 St Lawrence River 44 06 N 76 24 W 4 Snake River 44 7 49 N 110 13 10 W 8 Rhine River 46 37 57 N 8 40 20 E
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