Water Cycle

Question 1

What is evaporation?

Answer 1

This is the process in which liquid water is changed into water vapor, which is a gas

Question 2

What is condensation?

Answer 2

This is the process by which water vapor changes into water droplets

Question 3

What is precipitation?

Answer 3

This occurs when water in any of its forms falls from the atmosphere to the surface

Question 4

What is water cycle?

Answer 4

This is the continuous movement of water between the earths surface and atmosphere in its various state

Question 5

What is transpiration?

Answer 5

This is when water vapor is taken from plants.

Question 6

What are the other processes in the water cycle?

Answer 6

Surface runoff
Groundwater
Through flow
Infiltration
Peredation
Interception
Stem flow

Question 7

3 functions of a River

Answer 7

Erosion,transportation and deposition

Question 8

2 reasons why a river deposits its load

Answer 8

Either because the River slows down or the amount of water in the river channel decreases

Question 9

Which function of the River js most common in the water course

Answer 9

Transportation

Question 10

Which river feature is associated with slip off slope and river cliff

Answer 10

River meanders

Question 11

Process where water evaporates from trees

Answer 11

Transpiration

Question 12

Ways in which waves transport their load

Answer 12

Traction
Saltation
Solution

Question 13

What is longshore drift

Answer 13

the movement of sediments along a coast by waves that approach at an angle to the shore

Question 14

Describe three differences between constructive and destructive waves

Answer 14

Destructive waves have stronger backwashes than swashes, it is more larger and powerful and normally forms when there is a storm

Constructive waves are made when the sea is calm and they deposit materials onto the shore

Question 15

Describe the formation of one coastal erosional feature

Answer 15

Abrasion is a process that creates coastal erosion landforms through the movement of rock in waves crashing against rock faces.

Question 16

Describe the formation of one coastal depositional feature

Answer 16

Longshore drift is the main way that sediment is moved and deposited along a coastline

Question 17

4 types of erosion in rivers

Answer 17

Corrosion
Hydraulic
Abrasion
Attrition

Question 18

How does deposition take place in rivers

Answer 18

When the River loses energy

Question 19

Wave crest

Answer 19

The highest part of the wave

Question 20

Wave trough

Answer 20

The lowest part of the wave

Question 21

Wave height

Answer 21

The vertical distance between the wave trough and the wave crest

Question 22

Wave length

Answer 22

The distance between two consecutive wave crests or between two consecutive wave troughs.

Question 23

Corrasion/ abrasion

Answer 23

: As the river flows it grinds its load against its bed and banks. This loosens material which the river carries downstream.

Question 24

Attrition

Answer 24

This refers to the process by which material being carried by the river, such as rocks and stones, collide with each other.

Question 25

Saltation

Answer 25

Particles such as small stones are bounced along the riverbed as they make their way downstream.

Question 26

Traction

Answer 26

The heaviest material in the river’s load, such as large rocks, are simply rolled along the riverbed.

Question 27

Surface runoff

Answer 27

precipitation that runs off the landscape.

Question 28

Erosion

Answer 28

the process where rocks are broken down by natural forces such as wind or water

Question 29

Deposition

Answer 29

the laying down of sediment carried by wind, flowing water, the sea or ice

Question 30

What is weather

Answer 30

the state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place

Question 31

Climate

Answer 31

Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area.

Question 32

What is solution

Answer 32

Dissolve chemicals transported

Question 33

Suspension

Answer 33

Lighter particles can be picked up and carried within the water

Question 34

Source of a river

Answer 34

This is where the river begins

Question 35

There are three types of erosion:

Answer 35

Headward
Lateral-widening
Vertical-deepening

Question 36

Hydraulic action

Answer 36

The sheer force of water on rocks