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Water Cycle and Insecurity
Water Cycle and Insecurity
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Based on the A-Level #Edexcel specification #geography
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What is thermohaline circulation?
An aquifer
Fossil water
The ITCZ
Oceanic circulation system
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An underground water store is also known as...
Throughflow
An aquifer
Tropospheric rivers
The cryosphere
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Which of the following is not a flow within the drainage basin
Percolation
Throughflow
Infiltration
Soil moisture
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The Earth's solid outer part and layers of the earth
Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
Atmosphere
Biosphere
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What is a flux?
An input
A flow
A store
An output
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What human activity uses the most water, worldwide?
Drinking
Bathing
Industry
Agriculture
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The release of water vapour from plants
Runoff
Transpiration
Condensation
Melting
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The water balance equation is...
Q = P +/- E +/- S
Q = P + E +/- S
P = Q + E +/- S
P = Q +/- E +/- S
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Which of the following is the best description of interception?
Water held within aquifers
Also known as overland flow
Water flowing down plant stems
Temporary storage, as water is captured by vegetation
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E.N.S.O stands for...
El Nino Southern Oscillation
Elephants Need Showers Often
El Nina Southern Oscillation
El Nino Standard Order
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Causality is...
The processes involved in something
The impact of something
The consequence of something
The reason why something occurs
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A complex river regime is...
When rivers experience a period of seasonally high discharge
Where there are many drainage basins and rivers
Where larger rivers cross several relief and climatic zones
When rivers are within temperate climate zones
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What sequence of processes transports water from the ocean into a cloud?
condensation and freezing
evaporation and condensation
precipitation and condensation
evaporation and precipitation
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Human causes of flooding include...
Agriculture, deforestation and relief of the land
Deforestation, channel mismanagement and urbanisation
Impermeable rock types, urbanisation, deforestation
Urbanisation, deforestation and La Nina
