Hydrosphere

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Front (Question)

What are the different reservoirs of water in the water cycle

Back (Answer)

• oceans • lakes • rivers

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Define the term residence time

Back (Answer)

• how long water stays in a particular reservoir

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Define the term transfer rate

Back (Answer)

• how much water moves over a period of time

Front (Question)

How do you work out residence time

Back (Answer)

residence time = volume of H2O in a reservoir/mean transfer rate

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What is evaporation

Back (Answer)

• water moves from the earths surface to the atmosphere

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What is precipitation

Back (Answer)

• water moves from the atmosphere to the ground,ocean,lakes

Front (Question)

What is transpiration

Back (Answer)

• water moves from plants to the atmosphere

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What is runoff

Back (Answer)

• water moves from the land to the ocean

Front (Question)

What is interception

Back (Answer)

• water moves from the atmosphere to the plant

#10

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What is infiltration

Back (Answer)

• water moves from the surface to the soil

#11

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What is percolation

Back (Answer)

• downward movement of water through the soil

#12

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What is ground water flow

Back (Answer)

• water moving slowly through rocks towards the sea

#13

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What is transport by the wind

Back (Answer)

• water moves over the ocean to over the land

#14

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What is surface flow

Back (Answer)

• water flows downhill towards stream channels which join rivers and eventually reach the oceans

#15

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Where does the energy come from that drives the water cycle

Back (Answer)

• the sun

#16

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Define the term abstraction

Back (Answer)

• taking water from a natural reservoir for human use

#17

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What effects does urbanization have on the process and reservoir

Back (Answer)

• reduces infiltration • increase interception

#18

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What effect does abstraction of water have on the process and reservoir

Back (Answer)

• decrease water volume underground

#19

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What effect does agriculture have on the process and reservoir

Back (Answer)

• decrease infiltration • increase transpiration • can increase and decrease interception

#20

Front (Question)

What effect does deforestation have on the process and the reservoir

Back (Answer)

• decrease transpiration • decrease interception • decrease infiltration

#21

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What effect does afforestation have on the process and reservoir

Back (Answer)

• increase transpiration • increase interception • increase infiltration

#22

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What effect does industry have on the process and the reservoir

Back (Answer)

• slows evaporation • more water is being abstracted out of natural reservoirs

#23

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What effect does combustion have on the process and reservoir

Back (Answer)

• increase evaporation • increase precipitation • increase transpiration

#24

Front (Question)

What are the 4 types of demand for water

Back (Answer)

• population size • affluence • agriculture • industry