WorksheetsWater & Carbon Cycles 1 A Level Geography AQA
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3mins
What is an input to a system?
A part of a system where matter is stored
A set of interrelated components
The addition of matter
A form of linkage between stores
What is a closed system?
These have transfers of energy but not matter across the system boundary
These have transfers of both energy and matter across the system boundary
These have no interactions with anything outside the system boundary. There is no input or output of energy or matter
What is positive feedback?
Where the effects of an action are amplified or multiplied by subsequent knock-on or secondary effects
Where the effects of an action are nullified by its subsequent knock-on effects
What is cryospheric water
Water found in the atmosphere
Water found in the soil and as groundwater
Water locked up as ice
Water in the oceans and seas
Terrestrial water falls into four broad classes: surface water, groundwater, soil water and?
(a)
What is the process when solid water (ice) changes state into water vapour (gas)?
Condensation
Sublimation
Evaporation
Deposition
What is this?
Overland flow
Stemflow
Throughflow
Groundwater flow
What is potential evapotranspiration?
The amount of water that leaves the drainage basin as channel flow
The annual pattern of discharge in a river
The amount of water that is evaporated or transpired (or both) from an area
The amount of water that could be evaporated or transpired (or both) from an area if there was sufficient water available
What does this graph show?
Hill slope drainage system
Soil water budget
Phases of water and phase changes
Climate
What is happening in the pink section of this graph?
Utilisation
Soil water surplus
Deficit of soil water
Soil water recharge
