The Water Cycle

Question 1

What does the spatial distribution mean?

Answer 1

The space being occupied by water

Question 2

How much water covers the earths surface

Answer 2

67%

Question 3

How much water is in ice caps

Answer 3

2.05%

Question 4

How much of the water is freshwater

Answer 4

2.7%

Question 5

How much of the water can be obtained by humans

Answer 5

0.7%

Question 6

What is convection and what does it do in the water cycle

Answer 6

Convection is the process of transferring heat to heat gets transferred from the sun to water to create water vapor

Question 7

What is the difference between transpiration and evaporation

Answer 7

Evaporation is when water turns into a gas called water vapor and transpiration is when water from plants’ stomata turns into ton water vapor.

Question 8

What is precipitation

Answer 8

Any water falling from the sky naturally, includes rain, hail, sleet, and snow

Question 9

What is the stomata

Answer 9

A stomata is the pores of a plant - where plants extract oxygen

Question 10

What is fallen precipitation

Answer 10

When droplets are heavy enough to fall on the earth.

Question 11

Where does fallen precipitation often go?

Answer 11

Fallen precipitation is often collected into bodies of water like rivers, ponds, the ocean.

Question 12

Name the three types of rainfall

Answer 12

Orographic, Convectional and Frontal; Rainfall

Question 13

Explain what the first type of rainfall does

Answer 13

When moist air is lifted to get over mountains and other heighted masses

Question 14

Explain what the second type of rainfall does

Answer 14

Frontal rainfall is when cool air wedges itself underneath warm air making warm air rise.

Question 15

Explain what the last type of rainfall does

Answer 15

Convection rainfall is when temperatures produce warm air making it rise and then rapidly condensing and making heavy rainfall.

Question 16

Why is water important to Indigenous Aboriginals

Answer 16

Cultural and Spiritual Value as well as water management is a really big part of the culture of Aboriginals.

Question 17

What importance does what have to nom indigenous Australians?

Answer 17

Income and Aesthetic value

Question 18

What is a natural hazard

Answer 18

A hazard is an event that is a potential source of harm to human life, health, income or possessions, and the physical environment.

Question 19

What are the two types of Natural hazards

Answer 19

Hydrological and Atmospherical hazards

Question 20

What is the difference between the two natural hazards

Answer 20

Hydrological hazards are when there is a destructive change in the quality and distribution of water whereas an atmospherical hazard is a destructive change in the quality and distribution of air in the atmosphere

Question 21

What is ground water

Answer 21

Water held in the soil

Question 22

What is an aquifer

Answer 22

A rock that holds or transmits groundwater

Question 23

Accumilation

Answer 23

to gather up little by little

Question 24

Water Scarcity

Answer 24

When water becomes harder to physically access ad the supply and demand changes

Question 24

Water Scarcity

Answer 24

When water becomes harder to physically access ad the supply and demand changes

Question 25

How are dry regions created

Answer 25

They are created when precipitation and evaporation are balanced on the surface

Question 26

What is condensation

Answer 26

When water vapor turns into water