Water Cycle Pack I Flashcards
1
Q
What are the case studies for aquifers?
A
- Ogallala
- Mexico City
- London
2
Q
What is the case study for cloud seeding?
A
Boise, Idaho
3
Q
What are the case studies for deforestation?
A
- Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Malaysia
4
Q
What is the case study for a dam?
A
Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD)
5
Q
What is the case study for natural flooding?
A
Slow the Flow in Pickering, Yorkshire
6
Q
What are the case studies for draining wetlands?
A
- Somerset Levels
- California
- Houston, Texas
7
Q
What are the case studies for afforestation schemes?
A
- Leitrim, N Ireland
- Freetown the Treetown
8
Q
What are the locations for convectional rainfall?
A
- Tropical rainforests
- S UK and Kent
9
Q
What are the locations for orographic rainfall?
A
- W UK
- Cumbria
10
Q
What is the location for frontal rainfall?
A
All of the UK
11
Q
What are the different biomes?
A
- Tundra
- Grasslands
- Tropical rainforests
12
Q
What are the rivers for river regimes?
A
- Amazon
- Murray Darling
- Yukon
- Colorado
- Kennet
13
Q
What are the examples of excess runoff?
A
- Ciara and Dennis
- Boscastle
- Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar
- India monsoon
- Yosemite, California
- Pacific Ocean to S America and Asia
- Mumbai
- Freetown, Sierra Leone
- Houston, Texas
- Somerset Levels
- Bangladesh
14
Q
What are examples of a water deficit?
A
- Sahel
- California
- Madagascar
- Lake Chad
- UK (seasonal variation)
