Australian Waterways and Management Flashcards
What is the biggest waterway in straya?
The Murry Darling Basin
What is riparian vegetation?
riverbank vegetation
Freshwater systems play a large role in the _______ and _____ systems of wildlife
transitory and migratory
Where does most of the waterway runoff happen?
in the northern tropics
T/F: Staya has generally predictable rainfall
FALSE - el nina and el nino yo
Most waterways lie where?
on the coast
List 3 of the permanent coastal rivers
Burnett
Mary
Tully
(BMT)
Biological consequences of Aussie’s scarce waterways
- Restrictions to waterways
- generally no req. for water-related adaptations (less specialization)
- diversity
- sort of endimism
Human impacts on waterways (2)
- settlement/agriculture
- modification of water flow
List 3 of the permanent inland rivers?
BMD
- Burnett
- Murray
- Darling
What does surface water refer to?
rivers and flood plains
What are differences between coastal and inland rivers?
- highly varable flow
- slow flow (flat topography)
- turbid (muddy)
- lower oxygen
- some water adapt. required
- larger animals
Name 2 intermittent inland rivers
CG
- Coopers
- Georgia
Describe inland intermittent rivers
- defined riverbeds
- deeper slow pools
- cooler with low oxygen
- periodic flooding
What is a river catchment?
Basin where water drains out to?