Water + Carbon cycle

Question 1

What is a closed system?

Answer 1

Where there is no input or output changes, nothing added to the system

Question 2

What is an open system?

Answer 2

When there are changes in the inputs and outputs of the systems

Question 3

What is positive feedback?

Answer 3

When a system change causes further, or snowball effect, and continues to accelerate the change?

Question 4

Where is water stored in the lithosphere?

Answer 4

The oceanic crust, stored within the rocks

Question 5

Where is water stored in the hydrosphere?

Answer 5

Oceans, rivers, lakes

Question 6

Where is water stored in the cryosphere?

Answer 6

Glaciers, ice sheets

Question 7

Where is water stored in the atmosphere?

Answer 7

Clouds, water vapour, particles

Question 8

How much water is stored in the cryosphere?

Answer 8

1.7%

Question 9

How much water is stored in the cryosphere?

Answer 9

1.7%

Question 10

How much water is stored in the hydrosphere?

Answer 10

96.5%

Question 11

Some examples of water stores in the cryosphere?

Answer 11

ice sheets
glaciers
ice caps
permafrost

Question 12

Some examples of terrestrial water stores

Answer 12

rivers
lakes
wet lands

Question 13

What is the ITCZ?

Answer 13

Intertropical convergence zone

Question 14

What are some examples of atmospheric processes?

Answer 14

Drizzle
Snow 
Sleet
Hail
Frost

Question 15

What are the 3 types of rainfall?

Answer 15

Convectional
Frontal
Relief

Question 16

What word is used to describe melting ice sheets?

Answer 16

Ablation

Question 17

What is the word used to describe the build up of ice sheets?

Answer 17

Accumulation

Question 18

Whats a hill slope drainage basin?

Answer 18

Local, small scale basin

One part of a large drainage basin

Question 19

What is the water balance?

Answer 19

Soil moisture budget

Question 20

What does the soil water budget show?

Answer 20

Describes the changes in the soil water levels throughout the year

Question 21

Whats organic carbon?

Answer 21

Fond in living matter and organisms such as plants

Question 22

Where is inorganic carbon stored?

Answer 22

Sedimentary rocks

Non living things

Question 23

What are some examples of carbon compounds?

Answer 23

CO2
Methane
Calcium carbonate

Question 24

Where does carbon come from?

Answer 24

Escapes at destructive boundaries

Question 25

Whats the main store of carbon?

Answer 25

Cryosphere

Question 26

What are peat bogs?

Answer 26

Undecayed organic matter found in boggy areas

Question 27

What processes change stores over time?

Answer 27

Phototsynthesis Respiration Decomposition Carbon Sequention

Question 28

What processes move carbon in a tree?

Answer 28

Takes carbon in by photosynthesis Released through respiration Some released through decomposers

Question 29

What type of correlation is there between water temp and carbon levels?

Answer 29

Negative

Question 30

Diffusion moves carbon from the ...... to the ......

Answer 30

Atmosphere to the ocean

Question 31

Carbon diffusion levels determine the ....... levels of the oceans

Answer 31

Acidity

Question 32

What is downwelling?

Answer 32

Carries carbon molecules down to deep depths of the oceans

Question 33

What human activities influence carbon levels?

Answer 33

Hydrocarbon fuel extraction Cement manufacture Farming

Question 34

What is carbon sequestration?

Answer 34

Capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and moving it into long term storage

Question 35

What is geological sequestration?

Answer 35

CO2 is captured at the source, eg power plants and injected in liquid form into stores underground

Question 36

What is biological sequestration?

Answer 36

Involves plants to capture CO2 and store carbon in the roots, stems and soil