Please answer numbers 4, 7, & 8 4. Evaporation : You are hired as a consultant f
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Please answer numbers 4, 7, & 8
4. Evaporation: You are hired as a consultant for a salt company because they want to construct a series of shallow ponds that they will fill with water and let evaporate to produce salt. What kind of climatic conditions would you look for to tell the company where to build their ponds? Give at least two environmental variables you would be interested in.
7.Isotopes: imagine the following island, Rectangu land, which is entirely surrounded by ocean. There are three lakes on the island (#1, 2, and 3) that only receive water from precipitation. Assume the island is surrounded by the ocean, that the ocean water always has the same amount of 18O in it, and that the lakes only receive water from the precipitation from the ocean.
If the wind blows from left to right, then which lake will be most depleted (have the least) amount of 18O?
What if the wind blows from right to left?
Which lake would be most depleted for 18O if the wind blew from top to bottom?
8. Isotopes can also tell you something about evaporation. Below is a study that looked at the oxygen isotopes (listed as d18O values, which we covered in class) in lake sediments from Mexico, and how those changes corresponded to changes in Mayan culture.
When did the Mayan collapse occur, and what was the climate like during that time?
How could those climate conditions affect a civilization?
What happened to the values d18O at this time?
How would increased evaporation cause this shift and lead these researchers to make their conclusions about the climate then?
Explanation / Answer
Solution:-As a consultant of salt company would prefer very hot summer climatic conditions due to natural way of evaporating and also economically best way to minimizing the expenditure cost to maximize profit.
During high tide do influx sea water and salt pins a unique ecosystem to protect the quality of salt from different organisms such as fungi ,bacteria ec.