THE WATER CYCLE AND WATER INSECURITY
EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
130 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Terms in this set (136)
A system is any set of interrelated components that
What is a system
area connected together to form a working whole.
inputs and outputs, fluxes (rates of flow) and
Systems often have processes
eg. glaciers,tectonics,globalisation,economic, political
Systems can be either open or closed
inputs and outputs or energy and matter from open
Open systems have
systems eg. glacier system, river system
got inputs or outputs of matter, does have energy. eg.
Closed systems has not
closed water or hydrological cycle, carbon cycle
Global Hydrologoical Continents, oceans, maritime atmosphere, continental
cycle stores atmosphere,
units of flux 10cubed Km cubed
Continents to Oceans flux Channel runoff (rivers) 40
oceans to maritime evaporation from oceans 413
atmosphere flux
Maritime atmosphere to precipitation on the oceans 373
oceans flux
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Maritime atmosphere to ocean to land water vapour transport 40
continental atmosphere
flux
Continental atmosphere to precipitation on land 113
continents flux
Continents to continental evaporation transpiration from continents 73
atmosphere flux
All the processes by which moisture falls from the
precipitation atmosphere onto the surface of the earth
eg. rain, snow,hail, drizzle
Process by which water changes state from liquid to
Evaporation
water vapour
Process by which plants absorb soil moisture via their
transpiration roots and give off water vapour through
(stomata/pores) on their leaf surfaces
Evapotranspiration Evaporation + Transpiration
Ocean water % and 96.9% 3600 years
residence time
Ice caps + glaciers water 1.9% 15,000years
% and residence time
Ground water water % and 1.1% up to 10,000 years
residence time
residence time average time a water molecule spends in a store
Rivers and lakes water% 0.01% 2 weeks to 10 years
and residence time
Soil moisture water % and 2-50 weeks 0.01%
residence time
Atmospheric moisture 0.001% 10 days
water % and residence
time
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