Changing magnitude of stores of water

Question 1

Evaporation

Answer 1

Change from liquid water to gas (water vapour)

Question 2

Evaporation occur?

Answer 2

Energy from solar radiation hits surface of water or land and causes the change in state

Question 3

Condensation

Answer 3

Gas to liquid as a result of cooling

Question 4

Causes of precipitation

Answer 4

Condensation is the direct cause of precipitation

Takes place when volume of air increases

Question 5

Relief rainfall

Answer 5

Prevailing wind picks up moisture from sea
Moist air is forced to rise over mountain, cools and condenses forming clouds
Air drops increasing amount of water it can hold

Question 6

Convectional rainfall

Answer 6

Surface of the earth is heated
The warm surface heats the air and this rises
Convection produces culuniombus clouds which create rain

Question 7

Frontall rainfall

Answer 7

Warm and cool air are blown towards each other
Warmer air is forced to rise over denser cold air
Produces a variety of clouds

Question 8

Cryospheric processes

Answer 8

Processes that affect the total mass of ice at any scale

Act when the temperature gets close to freezing point or below

Question 9

Accumulation

Answer 9

Build up of ice mass, inputs exceed outputs

Question 10

Ablation

Answer 10

Loss of ice mass