Knowledge Test water cycle

Question 1

What is evaporation?

Answer 1

Water being heated and turning into vapour

Question 2

What is the cryosphere?

Answer 2

Where ice is stored in ice sheets, sea ice, glaciers, permafrost, ice caps

Question 3

What is a closed system?

Answer 3

When there are no inputs or outputs apart from energy

Question 4

What is the lower part of the atmosphere?

Answer 4

Troposphere

Question 5

What is the ITCZ?

Answer 5

Where warm air from the tropics meets at the Equator creating an area of low pressure

Question 6

What is orographic?

Answer 6

The movement of water vapour over a mountain

Question 7

What is an ice cap?

Answer 7

Thick layers of ice on the land that are smaller than 50,000 km2

Question 8

What is accumulation?

Answer 8

When liquid water freezes into ice

Question 9

What is latent heat?

Answer 9

The amount of heat that is given out or taken in from the surroundings

Question 10

What is the word used to describe when the ice melts into water?

Answer 10

Ablation

Question 11

What is water stress?

Answer 11

When the annual supply of water per person is less than 1,700m3

Question 12

What is the term used to describe the side of the mountain that is dry?

Answer 12

Rain shadow

Question 13

What is high pressure?

Answer 13

When the air is descending and warming therefore no condensation

Question 14

What is the dew point?

Answer 14

The temperature at which water vapour turns into a liquid creating a cloud

Question 15

What does prevailing wind mean?

Answer 15

The most common wind

Question 16

What is positive feedback?

Answer 16

When the effects of an action are amplified by other knock-on effects

Question 17

What is a system where the output from one system forms the input into another?

Answer 17

Cascading system

Question 18

What is a system?

Answer 18

A model which helps to explain relationships within a unit

Question 19

What is dynamic equilibrium?

Answer 19

There is a balance between inputs and outputs

Question 20

What is the term to describe the parts of substances that make up the system?

Answer 20

Elements

Question 21

Which of the following are processes?

Infiltration

Percolation

Groundwater

Throughflow

Answer 21

Infiltration

Percolation

Throughflow

Question 22

What is the term used to describe when vegetation stops the precipitation from reaching the ground?

Answer 22

interception

Question 23

What is the term used to explain water flowing down the branches and trunk of the tree?

Answer 23

stemflow

Question 24

When the ground is full of water it is said to be what?

Answer 24

saturated

Question 25

What is the top of the groundwater known as?

Answer 25

water table

Question 26

What is the term used to describe water soaking into the underlying rock?

Answer 26

percolation

Question 27

What is the term used to describe the amount of water flowing in the river?

Answer 27

Discharge

Question 28

What is the term used to describe a river which reacts very quickly to a storm?

Answer 28

flashy

Question 29

What is the term used to describe where warm and cold air meet?

Answer 29

front

Question 30

What is the name of the cell closest to the Equator?

Answer 30

hadley cell

Question 31

What will shorten lag time?

Answer 31

Impermeable soil
Urban areas
Deforestation

Question 32

What is a drainage basin?

Answer 32

an area drained by a river and its tributaries

Question 33

Where does a river start?

Answer 33

Source

Question 34

What is around a diagram of a river?

Answer 34

Watershed

Question 35

What is the point of the river where it branches off called?

Answer 35

confluence

Question 36

Spearman’s Rank is used to test to see if there is a what?

Answer 36

correlation

relationship

Question 37

How do you know if your answer is correct in Spearman’s Rank?

Answer 37

It needs to be between 1 and -1

Question 38

In this formula for Spearman’s Rank what does ‘n’ stand for?

Answer 38

number of sets of data

Question 39

In this formula for Spearman’s Rank what does ‘d’ stand for?

Answer 39

difference between the ranks

Question 40

In order to accept the hypothesis, to what % must we be sure?

Answer 40

95%

Question 41

Where is most of the world’s freshwater stored?

Answer 41

cryosphere

ice