Water Conflicts - Key Terms

Question 1

Closed System

Answer 1

Global hydrological cycle is powered by solar energy - it is a closed system in continual circulation. There is a definite amount of water in the system, the amount doesn’t change

Question 2

Groundwater Flow

Answer 2

Water that travels through saturated ground

Question 3

Stores

Answer 3

When water is stationary and not moving in a drainage basin

Question 4

Evaporation

Answer 4

The process of water turning from a liquid into vapour. Evaporation only takes place from a body of water e.g. lake, puddle or sea

Question 5

Channel Flow

Answer 5

Water that travels in a river

Question 6

Inputs

Answer 6

When water is added to the drainage basin

Question 7

Surface Runoff

Answer 7

When water travels across the surface of the earth e.g. down a hill

Question 8

Outputs

Answer 8

When water leaves a drainage basin

Question 9

Through Flow

Answer 9

Water that travels through unsaturated ground

Question 10

Blue Water Flow

Answer 10

Visible part of the hydrological system, surface flows and then recharging aquifers

Question 11

Green Water Flow

Answer 11

Is water intercepted, stores and released by vegetation by evaporation and transpiration

Question 12

Evaportranspiration

Answer 12

The combined action of evaporation and transpiration

Question 13

Transpiration

Answer 13

Where the water goes up through the plants and is released into the air through the leaves

Question 14

Percolation

Answer 14

Water that travels from unsaturated into saturated ground

Question 15

Precipitation

Answer 15

Any moisture that falls fro the atmosphere. The main types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog and dew

Question 16

Inflitration

Answer 16

Water that moves from the surface of the earth into the soil below

Question 17

Helsinki Rules

Answer 17

On the uses of the waters of international rivers is an international guideline regulating how rivers and their connected groundwater’s that cross national boundaries, may be used. Adopted by the international law association in Helsinki, Finland, August 1966