Key Hydrological Cycle Terms and air masses Flashcards
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The cortisol is effect
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- earths spinning makes wind move up and down across different latitudes
2
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Interception
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- this is rain which is intercepted by vegetation, especially by the ground. It is usually intercepted by vegetation, mainly by leaves on trees.
3
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Throughflow
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- in a prolonged rainstorm, the leaves become saturated and water will begin to drip to the ground. Stem flow is another important way in which water moves from the tree to the ground, simply flowing down the outside of the tree trunk.
4
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Soil storage examples
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- clay soil has very small pores and does not let water pass through it easily
- sandy soil has many large pores and allows water to pass through it easily. The pores are gaps between the sand and they make the sand very pores
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River delta
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- a river delta is a landform created by deposition of sediment that is carried by a Rivera’s the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower moving or stagnant water. This occurs where a river enters an ocean that cannot carry away the sediment.
6
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El Niño
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- the warm phase, oscillation in climate patterns
7
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La Niña
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- cold phase, oscillation in climate patterns
