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1. List two potential advantages of using a non-recording rain gauge over using a tipping rain gauge.

2. List three ways of estimating snowfall and tell what it is that they are measuring.

3. There are two different agricultural sites with non-shielded non-recording rain gauges on them. Site P is in a wide clearing within a pecan tree grove, while site W is in a recently harvested wheat field. Radar estimates from a quickly moving front suggest that both locations received approximately equal amounts of rainfall. Therefore, you should expect these two gauges to show identical readings in their gauges, correct? Why or why not.

4. If they are separate processes, why is evaporation often grouped together with transpiration in budgeting and estimation?

5. Name a method of estimating evaporation independent of transpiration. List one potential issue that can arise with this method.

6. You are tasked with finding the ET values for several different annual crop to see which ones use the least water in a specific environment.

A. What type of device would you think would be best to record these ET values with?

B. Someone nearby has a large well established open forest and wants to know how much water the trees are using. Is the previously mentioned way of measuring ET good for this or not? If not, what method would you recommend?

C. Based on your answer for part b, is this method good for estimating ET for the entire forest? Why or why not?

7. In what type of conditions might the float method be more accurate in estimating streamflow than Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers?

8. What part of the watershed balance equation is infiltration part of?

9. What does the acronym WTF mean in the context of hydrology.

10. Define what a Watershed is. How big is it?

11. Based on what you know about HUC numbers, which of the two HUC numbers do you expect to have a larger area, 170900120202 or 01060001?