Hydrosphere Flashcards
The transfer of heat by horizontal movement of air or water such as a warm wind or ocean current.
Advection
The layers of gases that surround the Earth. The important gases in the atmosphere are nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide.
Atmosphere
A type of sedimentary rock.
Chalk
Once water is held in a river, it then flows to the sea where it is lost to the drainage basin system.
Channel flow
The combination of three processes - surface run off, through flow and groundwater.
Channel storage
Average weather conditions over long periods and over large areas.
Climate
Occurs where air is cooled and changes from a gas into water droplets.
Condensation
The process in which a liquid changes state and turns into a gas.
Evaporation
Energy derived from the heat in the interior of the Earth.
Geothermal energy
A slow moving ice mass, formed over a long period from compacted snow.
Glacier
Water is stored beneath the water table in pores, joints and bedding places of permeable rock above an impermeable layer.
Groundwater storage
The movement of precipitation into the soil.
Infiltration
The ability of vegetation to affect the amount of precipitation reaching the ground.
Interception
When water moved downwards through soil.
Percolation
Moisture that falls from the air to the ground. Includes rain, snow, hail, sleet, drizzle, fog and mist.
Precipitation
