Water Cycle

Question 1

What does lithosphere mean?

Answer 1

• rigid outer part of the earth

- dividing into tectonic plates

Question 2

What does Biosphere mean?

Answer 2

-regions of the earth’s atmosphere and surface occupied by living organisms

Question 3

What is the Hydrosphere?

Answer 3

-all bodies of water e.g lakes and seas

Question 4

What is the cryosphere?

Answer 4

• the frozen part of the earth’s surface

- includes ice sheets, glaciers, sea ice, and permafrost

Question 5

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 5

-the envelope of gases surrounding the planet

Question 6

What are aquifers?

Answer 6

• 30% of all fresh water stored underground

- unevenly distributed as they only form in porous and permeable rock such as chalk

Question 7

Water storage in the oceans

Answer 7

• contains 97% of all water on planet

- there is only 3% fresh water on planet

Question 8

Water storage in the atmosphere

Answer 8

• contains a small fraction of earths water

- water vapour is concentrated at the equator due to higher temperatures