EDUQAS on the whole of the water cycle
- Created by: Isobel.R.Regan
- Created on: 26-06-19 17:09
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- water cycle
- water cycle as a system
- inputs, outputs, mass balance, stores and flows
- stores
- sea-level change
- changes in cryosphere processes
- temporal variations in discharge
- base flow, storm flow, simple regime, complex regime
- factors influencing river regimes
- physical
- climate, vegetation, soil, geology
- human
- land use, irrigation and use of water, dam construction
- physical
- storm hydrographic
- flashy hydrographic
- precipitation and excess runoff in the water cycle
- causes of air uplift, condensation and cloud formation
- orographic
- frontal
- convection
- theories of precipitation formation
- collision coalescence process
- Bergeron - Findeisenprocess
- causes of excess runoff generation
- prolonged precipitation
- intense rainfall
- monsoon rainfall
- snowmelt
- human causes : urbanisation + deforestation
- causes of air uplift, condensation and cloud formation
- deficit within the water cycle
- types of droughts
- meterological
- agricultural
- hydrological drought
- meterological causes
- utilisation
- recharge
- deficit
- surplus
- human causes
- aquifer depletion
- recharge of aquifers
- natural recharge
- artificial recharge
- recharge of aquifers
- surface store depletion
- aquifer depletion
- types of droughts
- drainage basin as a system
- input - precipitation
- flows - through flow, stem flow, infiltration, overflow, through flow, percolation, ground water flow, channel flow
- stores - interception, vegetation, surface, groundwater
- outputs - evaporation, transpiration, channel discharge into oceans
- water cycle as a system
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