Global Hydrological Cycle

Question 1

What type of system is the water cycle?

Answer 1

A closed system.

Question 2

What are the three components of the water cycle?

Answer 2

Stores, Flows and Processes.

Question 3

1) Define what a store is in a system.

2) What are the different types of stores?

Answer 3

1) An energy or matter build within a system.

2) Local stores, Global stores.

Question 4

1) Define local store.

2) Give some examples of a local store in the water cycle.

Answer 4

1)

2) Interception, Vegetation storage,

Question 5

1) Define global stores.

2) Give examples of global stores in the water cycle.

Answer 5

1)

2) Oceans, Lakes, Aquifers and the Cryosphere.

Question 6

What is an aquifer?

Answer 6

An underground lake.

Question 7

What is the cryosphere?

Answer 7

Glaciers and Ice sheets.

Question 8

1) Define flow in the water cycle.

2) What are examples of flows in the water cycle?

Answer 8

1)

2) Infiltration, Through flow, Percolation, Stem flow, Base flow, Chanel flow and Surface run off.

Question 9

1) Define what processes are.

2) Give examples of processes in the water cycle.

Answer 9

1) processes are what drive flows between stores.

2) Precipitation, Evaporation, Transpiration, Cryosphere exchanges and Run off.

Question 10

What percentage of the worlds global water stores are stored in:

1) Oceans and Seas?
2) Freshwater?
3) Other saline water stores?

Answer 10

1) 96.5%

2) 2.5%

3) 1%

Question 11

What percentage of the worlds fresh water stores are stored in:

1) Cryosphere?
2) Groundwater?
3) Surface water?

Answer 11

1) 68.8%

2) 30%

3) 1.2%

Question 12

What percentage of The worlds Fresh Water stores are stored in the following:

A) Gound ice and prmafrost?
B) Lakes?
C) Soil moisture?
D) atmosphere?
E) Swamps/Marshes?
F) Rivers?
G) Biosphere?

Answer 12

A) 69%
B) 20%
C) 4%
D) 3%
E) 3%
F) 0.5%
G) 0.5%