Major stores

Question 1

What are the four major water stores? COAT

Answer 1

1. Cryospheric Water
2. Oceanic Water
3. Atmospheric Water
4. Terrestrial Water

Question 2

What 5 components does the cryospheric store contain?

Answer 2

1. Sea Ice
2. Permafrost
3. Ice caps
4. Ice sheets
   5.Alpine Glaciers

Question 3

When melted what store will not have an effect on rising the sea level?

Answer 3

Sea Ice

Question 4

Why is it important for there to be an abundance of sea ice?

Answer 4

Sea ice reflects a lot of solar energy back into space, if it is not there it will absorb the heat and contribute to global warming.

Question 5

True or false: Ice caps are based on land.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Give an example of a large Ice sheet.

Answer 6

Greenland

Question 7

What 5 components does the terrestrial store contain?

Answer 7

1. Surface Water
2. Ground Water
3. Water Table
4. Soil Water
5. Biological Water

Question 8

How is water stored in the rock underground?

Answer 8

In pore spaces of the rock

Question 9

What is soil water?

Answer 9

Water held together with air, in the unsaturated upper layers of soil.

Question 10

What level of rock is the Water table found?

Answer 10

The upper level of saturated rock.

Question 11

What is biological water?

Answer 11

Makes up the water stored in plants

Question 12

What are the three main transfers of water in the atmosphere?

Answer 12

1. Evaporation
2. Condensation
3. Precipitation

Question 13

Through what process is water vapour returned back to the atmosphere?

Answer 13

Transpiration

Question 14

Why is the ocean becoming increasingly acidic?

Answer 14

More c02 is being absorbed from the atmosphere- forming carbonic acid

Question 15

What are clouds?

Answer 15

Visible mass of water droplets/ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere.

Question 16

What are the clouds the result of?

Answer 16

Air in lower atmosphere becoming saturated as it cools.

Question 17

Why is atmospheric water important to life?

Answer 17

Because it absorbs, reflects and scatters incoming solar radiation, keeping the atmosphere at a temperature that can maintain life.

Question 18

How are ice caps different from ice sheets?

Answer 18

Ice caps are smaller than 50,000km squared
Ice sheets are greater than 50,000km squared

Question 19

Where do you find Alpine glaciers

Answer 19

In deep valleys and upland hollows.

Question 20

Define an aquifer?

Answer 20

Water that is stored underground in the pore spaces of rock.

Question 21

Outline flows within the water cycle operating on a hill slope.

Answer 21

Surface runoff occurs when water runs directly over the ground.
This may occur if the soil is saturated (or flow over impermeable surfaces).
* Infiltration occurs when the water moves from the surface and then down through the soil horizons, until it reaches the groundwater or an impermeable layer in the soil
* Throughflow occurs when, under the force of gravity, water moves downslope through the soil until it reaches a water body. This movement is usually very slow due to the frictional effect of the soil particles.
* Groundwater flow is the movement of water through permeable rock under the force of gravity. This is the slowest flow of water on a hillslope
. Other types of flow may also be considered e.g. percolation, stemflow

Question 22

Where are the typical stores of water within the lithosphere?

Answer 22

Groundwater, lakes and marshland

Question 23

Where are the typical stores of water within the lithosphere?

Answer 23

Groundwater, lakes and marshland

Question 24

What does impermeable rock prevent?

Answer 24

Percolation