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GY 101 Chapter 4 Test |Questions withCorrect Answers
Potential ___ is the maximum amount of evaporation and transpiration that would occur if
sufficient water supplies were available over a given period of time -
✔Evapotranspiration
The 3 main ___ of water are the oceans, continents, and atmosphere - ✔stores
Match the main store of water to the average residence time for water in that store -
✔Atmosphere: 8 days
Oceans: 3,000 years
Continents (in and on): 350 years
Match the water-balance diagram letter to the correct climate type depicted. Recall that
dark blue indicated water surplus and dark orange is water deficit - ✔A: Tropical rain forest
B: desert c:
subarctic
d: humid subtropical climate
The part of the subsurface where most of the pore spaces are filled with air is the ___ zone
(marked "A" in the image). The area of subsurface where the pore spaces are filled with
water is called the ___ zone. - ✔Unsaturated; saturated
The climate water balance estimates ____. - ✔the amount of water in each store and its rate
of movement through the hydrologic cycle
, Which of the following are conditions that occur when precipitation (P) is greater than
potential evapotranspiration (PE)? - ✔The soil is saturated.
Surplus water flows downhill as surface runoff.
Standing water in lakes increases.
Storing and moving fresh water from one place to another is accomplished by using ____. -
✔Installed pipelines
Raised aqueducts
Constructed canals
Evaporated water molecules that move high into the atmosphere, because of storm activity,
experience a(n) ___ in potential energy. Gravity can then pull the water molecules back to
Earth, demonstrating a change to kinetic energy. Together this pattern leads to a ____
residence time for water in the atmosphere. - ✔Increase; short
The federal government agency that regulates municipal water supplies is the ___. - ✔EPA
If the flow rate of a stream doubles, then the average residence time for a water molecule
in that stream ____. - ✔decreases
Match the term used to describe soil in water balance equations to its defintion - ✔Soil-water
use: water stored in soil that is evapotranspirated when PE is greater than P
Field capacity: the amount of water soil can hold against gravity
Wilting point: the amount of water than adheres to soil grains when all other water is gone
How is precipitation measured? - ✔Rain gauges, satellites, automated surface observing
system, electronic height-measuring sensors, vertical rods marked with the distance above the
ground
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