Section 1 - Rivers (The Hydrological Cycle)

Question 1

Name the 4 types of water storage

Answer 1

• channel storage
• groundwater storage
• interception storage
• surface storage

Question 2

What is infiltration?

Answer 2

When water soaks into the soil

Question 3

What is percolation?

Answer 3

When water moves vertically down through soil and rock

Question 4

What is through flow?

Answer 4

When water in the soil flows downhill

Question 5

What is ground water flow?

Answer 5

When water in the rock flows downhill

Question 6

What is surface runoff?

Answer 6

When water flows overground

Question 7

What is channel flow?

Answer 7

The flow of water in a river

Question 8

What is channel storage?

Answer 8

When water is held in a river

Question 9

What is groundwater storage?

Answer 9

When water is stored underground in soil and rock

Question 10

What is an aquifer?

Answer 10

A rock that stores water

Question 11

What is interception storage?

Answer 11

When water (precipitation) lands on things and doesn’t hit the ground, ex. trees

Question 12

What is storage surface?

Answer 12

When water is held in things like lakes, reservoirs and puddles

Question 13

How does water leave the cycle?

Answer 13

•evaporation
•transpiration
Combined is evapotranspiration

Question 14

How does water enter the cycle?

Answer 14

Precipitation (wind moves the evaporation inland to form a cloud and the water condenses to form rain)

Question 15

Name the 3 areas in the hydro cycle

Answer 15

• land
• sea
• atmosphere

Question 16

Name the 7 types of water transfer/flow

Answer 16

• infiltration
• percolation
• through flow
• groundwater flow
• surface runoff
• channel flow
• movement of water vapour by wind