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What is a water store?

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Anything that stores water i.e. ice caps.

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What is a flow?

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Transport of water i.e. percolation, or flux

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What are aquifers and cryosphere’s?

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Cryosphere’s include glaciers, where as aquifers include under ground water store.

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What is a drainage basin?

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Watersheds where water and rain comes from.

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What are 3 types of inputs precipitation?

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Orographic- clouds condense over mountains
Frontal- clouds meet and condense
Convectional- radiation causes clouds to condense

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What are 3 outputs?

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Evaporation, transpiration and channel flow

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What is cryosphere?

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Regions on Earth where the water is frozen.

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What is the biosphere?

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Regions on Earth where living beings stay.

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What is the difference between ground and surface water?

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ground water is pure, whilst surface water has salt

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What is an open system?

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Water from other sources can enter or leave the system, same water is not recycled.

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what is the hydrological cycle and drainage basin?

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hydrological cycle is the water cycle, while drainage basin allows water to travel towards the sea i.e. drains water to sea.

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what are inputs?

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precipitation

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Define interception.

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precipitation that does not reach soil therefore is absorbed by leaves.

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Define infiltration.

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when water on surface of ground enters soil

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Define overland flow/ surface run off?

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when excess water doesn’t allow infiltration

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Define through flow.

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water flow within soil, occurs during flooding etc.

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Define ground water flow.

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water enters soil then travels to the sea or river where its deposited

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Define percolation.

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water movement through porous substances i.e permeable rock.

19
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what are outputs?

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Evaporation, transpiration, evapotranspiration and channel flow; flow of liquid through a channel.

20
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What is a relief rainfall?

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This occurs near mountains that are near the sea. wind from the sea blows towards mountains, due to height of mountains the wind has to rise forming clouds creating rain.

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What is frontal rain and where does this usually occur?

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This is when cold and warm air meet resulting in rain, meeting point is usually 60 degrees north i.e England

22
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What is convectional rainfall?

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Sun heats the less dense ground and more dense sea, hot air rises and cools condensing creating rain.

23
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What is the relevance of Cherrapungi?

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This is the wettest place on Earth where floods occur, trees form bridges which grow stronger with age. Rainfall is great due to it being surrounded by ocean.

24
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If water gets accumulated in one area what can this lead to?

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waterlog

25
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Define water budget.

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Amount of water available for us.

26
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Define fossil water.

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Water that can never be replenished. This is non renewable.

27
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Explain positive and negative runoff.

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p- this is when there is an increase in runoff

n- this is when there is a decrease in runoff

28
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Define residence time.

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How long a body of water will retain that water, how long will that water be available before it is not.

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Name 5 drainage basins.

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Climate- influences precipitation and evaporation
vegetation- redistributes soil moisture back into soil
relief- altitude impacts percolation
soil- allows infiltration and flow through
geology- causes percolation and groundwater flow

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Name the 2 tributaries of the Nile river.

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The white Nile which has light coloured clay and blue Nile, which has volcanic silts.

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What is a confined and unconfined aquifer?

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Confined aquifer is when water cannot flow away due to lack of porous rocks but cannot be restored either, unconfined is when water can be replenished.

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How can humans affect the drainage basins?

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Deforestation, water abstractions and changing land use can all disrupt water processes.

33
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what is El Niño, La Nina and normal conditions?

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normal conditions- trade winds blow east to west, warm waters from SA to A, A experiences rain while SA is dry
El Nino- Trade winds blow west to east, warm water to SA from A, ocean heats up, rainfall in SA and drought in A
LA Nina- Trade winds blow east to west, stronger blow warm water SA to A, resulting in even more rain and drought.

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Define river regime.

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Annual variation in discharge at a particular point.

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What is a complex river regime?

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River with many tributaries that flow in many environments, This regime has more than 1 peak in annual discharge. factors such as climate, soil and geology have an effect on river regimes.

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