Stores of water - terrestrial

Question 1

Four classes?

Answer 1

1. surface water
2. groundwater
3. soil water
4. biological water

Question 2

Surface water?

Answer 2

free flowing water of rivers as well as the water of ponds and lakes

Question 3

Rivers?

Answer 3

act as a store and transfer of water through streams and channels

Question 4

River percentage of water? (small)

Answer 4

0.0002%

Question 5

Lakes?

Answer 5

collection of fresh water found in hollows on the land surface - majority are freshwater

Question 6

Wetlands?

Answer 6

areas of marsh, fen, peatland or water with water that is static of flowing where there is a dominance by vegetation

Question 7

Groundwater?

Answer 7

water that collects underground in the pore spaces of rocks

Question 8

Depth of groundwater?

Answer 8

4,000 metres

Question 9

Water table?

Answer 9

depth at which soil pore spaces or fractures and voids in rock become completely saturated with water

Question 10

Soil water?

Answer 10

which is held together with air in unsaturated upper weathered layers of the Earth

Question 11

What does it affect (soil water)?

Answer 11

weather/climate/run-off potential/flood control/soil erosion/slope failure

Question 12

What is soil moisture key in controlling?

Answer 12

the exchange of water and heat energy between the land surface and the atmosphere through evaporation and plant transpiration

Question 13

Biological water?

Answer 13

water stored in all the biomass