THE WATER CYCLE AND WATER INSECURITY EXAM NEWEST 2024 AC
TUAL EXAM COMPLETE 130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED A
SWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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1. What is a system A system is any set of interrelated components that area
connected together to form a working whole.
2. Systems often inputs and outputs, fluxes (rates of flow) and processes
have eg. glaciers,tectonics,globalisation,economic, political
3. Systems can be open or closed
either
4. Open systems inputs and outputs or energy and matter from open sys-
have tems eg. glacier system, river system
5. Closed systems got inputs or outputs of matter, does have energy. eg.
has not closed water or hydrological cycle, carbon cycle
6. Global Hydrol- Continents, oceans, maritime atmosphere, continental at-
ogoical cycle mosphere,
stores
7. units of flux 10cubed Km cubed
8. Continents to Channel runoff (rivers) 40
Oceans flux
9. oceans to mar- evaporation from oceans 413
itime atmos-
phere flux
10. Maritime atmos- precipitation on the oceans 373
phere to oceans
flux
11. Maritime atmos- ocean to land water vapour transport 40
phere to con-
tinental atmos-
phere flux
12. precipitation on land 113
, THE WATER CYCLE AND WATER INSECURITY EXAM NEWEST 2024 AC
TUAL EXAM COMPLETE 130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED A
SWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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Continental at-
mosphere to
continents flux
13. Continents to evaporation transpiration from continents 73
continental at-
mosphere flux
14. precipitation All the processes by which moisture falls from the atmos-
phere onto the surface of the earth
eg. rain, snow,hail, drizzle
15. Evaporation Process by which water changes state from liquid to water
vapour
16. transpiration Process by which plants absorb soil moisture via their
roots and give off water vapour through (stomata/pores)
on their leaf surfaces
17. Evapotranspira- Evaporation + Transpiration
tion
18. Ocean water % 96.9% 3600 years
and residence
time
19. Ice caps + glaci- 1.9% 15,000years
ers water % and
residence time
20. Ground water 1.1% up to 10,000 years
water % and resi-
dence time
21. residence time average time a water molecule spends in a store
22. Rivers and lakes 0.01% 2 weeks to 10 years
water% and resi-
dence time
, THE WATER CYCLE AND WATER INSECURITY EXAM NEWEST 2024 AC
TUAL EXAM COMPLETE 130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED A
SWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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23. Soil moisture wa- 2-50 weeks 0.01%
ter % and resi-
dence time
24. Atmospheric 0.001% 10 days
moisture water
% and residence
time
25. Biosphere water 0.0001% 1 week
% and residence
time
26. High channel High channel runoff is caused due to the rivers being sup-
runoff (switzer- plied with large volumes of water from glacieral ablation,
land and norway) cold temperatures= low rates of evaporation
Low rates of transpiration in Norway due to difficult fac-
tors (low light, cold, permafrost) plants become dormant,
mountainous reliefs=steep slopes= little infiltration= sur-
face runoff-> channel runoff (overland flow)
27. precipitation mm
units
28. channel runoff mm
units
29. % runoff % of precipitation that leaves a drainage basin via channel
runoff
30. Low channel Low channel runoff caused by high evapotranspiration
runoff (portugal rates due to hotter and more arid climates (closer to
and netherlands) the equator), topography is much flatter meaning that
water is more easily lost to infiltration ( water stays still
and infiltrates)= high transpiration due to plants taking up
water
31.
TUAL EXAM COMPLETE 130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED A
SWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
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1. What is a system A system is any set of interrelated components that area
connected together to form a working whole.
2. Systems often inputs and outputs, fluxes (rates of flow) and processes
have eg. glaciers,tectonics,globalisation,economic, political
3. Systems can be open or closed
either
4. Open systems inputs and outputs or energy and matter from open sys-
have tems eg. glacier system, river system
5. Closed systems got inputs or outputs of matter, does have energy. eg.
has not closed water or hydrological cycle, carbon cycle
6. Global Hydrol- Continents, oceans, maritime atmosphere, continental at-
ogoical cycle mosphere,
stores
7. units of flux 10cubed Km cubed
8. Continents to Channel runoff (rivers) 40
Oceans flux
9. oceans to mar- evaporation from oceans 413
itime atmos-
phere flux
10. Maritime atmos- precipitation on the oceans 373
phere to oceans
flux
11. Maritime atmos- ocean to land water vapour transport 40
phere to con-
tinental atmos-
phere flux
12. precipitation on land 113
, THE WATER CYCLE AND WATER INSECURITY EXAM NEWEST 2024 AC
TUAL EXAM COMPLETE 130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED A
SWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_fu095v
Continental at-
mosphere to
continents flux
13. Continents to evaporation transpiration from continents 73
continental at-
mosphere flux
14. precipitation All the processes by which moisture falls from the atmos-
phere onto the surface of the earth
eg. rain, snow,hail, drizzle
15. Evaporation Process by which water changes state from liquid to water
vapour
16. transpiration Process by which plants absorb soil moisture via their
roots and give off water vapour through (stomata/pores)
on their leaf surfaces
17. Evapotranspira- Evaporation + Transpiration
tion
18. Ocean water % 96.9% 3600 years
and residence
time
19. Ice caps + glaci- 1.9% 15,000years
ers water % and
residence time
20. Ground water 1.1% up to 10,000 years
water % and resi-
dence time
21. residence time average time a water molecule spends in a store
22. Rivers and lakes 0.01% 2 weeks to 10 years
water% and resi-
dence time
, THE WATER CYCLE AND WATER INSECURITY EXAM NEWEST 2024 AC
TUAL EXAM COMPLETE 130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED A
SWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_fu095v
23. Soil moisture wa- 2-50 weeks 0.01%
ter % and resi-
dence time
24. Atmospheric 0.001% 10 days
moisture water
% and residence
time
25. Biosphere water 0.0001% 1 week
% and residence
time
26. High channel High channel runoff is caused due to the rivers being sup-
runoff (switzer- plied with large volumes of water from glacieral ablation,
land and norway) cold temperatures= low rates of evaporation
Low rates of transpiration in Norway due to difficult fac-
tors (low light, cold, permafrost) plants become dormant,
mountainous reliefs=steep slopes= little infiltration= sur-
face runoff-> channel runoff (overland flow)
27. precipitation mm
units
28. channel runoff mm
units
29. % runoff % of precipitation that leaves a drainage basin via channel
runoff
30. Low channel Low channel runoff caused by high evapotranspiration
runoff (portugal rates due to hotter and more arid climates (closer to
and netherlands) the equator), topography is much flatter meaning that
water is more easily lost to infiltration ( water stays still
and infiltrates)= high transpiration due to plants taking up
water
31.
