Question

SORTABLE LIST

Convey the impact of increased temperatures on snow-
melt and water supply in the western United States by
placing the events in the correct order, with 1 being first
and 5 being last.
Climate Change and the Water Cycle
Rapid runoff causes spring flooding
Warmer Winter temperatures reduces snow accumulations,
3.
Communities downriver have reduced water availability,
Due to the early snowmelt, streams carry less water in the summer
5.
Snow melts earlier and faster in the spring​

Answer 1

1. Reduced snow accumulations
2. Earlier snowmelt in the Spring
3. Spring flooding
4. Less water in streams
5. Reduced water availability

Step-by-step explanation:

Less snow will fall in Winter due to the higher temperatures and, thus, will not accumulate. When there is less accumulated snow on the ground and the snowpack is thinner, then the snowmelt will occur earlier and faster in the Spring.

Quicker snowmelt in the Spring will result in rivers overflowing their banks because they cannot hold such a rapid influx of water. Rapid water cycle runoff will cause Spring flooding.

The snowpack will, therefore, be depleted early in the Spring season, and due to the earlier and faster snowmelt, there will be less water in the streams during the Summer.

The consequential lack of slow mountain snowmelt during the summer season will result in rivers flowing much less vigorously and with less volume over water. This means that downriver communities will face summer water shortages.