Zusammenfassung der Ressource
HYDROSPHERE
- NATURE
- The interconnected system of water
storage in the atmosphere and
lithosphere
- Includes clouds,
oceans, seas, ice caps,
glaciers, lakes, rivers,
underground water
supplies and
atmospheric water
vapours
- PROCESSES
- Global Water Budget
- The total amount of
water available in an
area: its inflows and
outflows
- Drought and
floods result in
variation
- Floods
- Slow-onset, rapid-onset
and flash floods
- A river floods when its
discharge is greater than the
capacity of the channel
- Drought
- Prolonged periods of
below-average rainfall
- Contribute to land
degredation, inhibit growth of
vegetation
- The Hydrological Cycle
- Evaporation > Transpiration > Condensation > Precipitation > Infiltration
- No water is added and
none is taken away
(closed system)
- What changes is its form,
location and distribution
- HUMAN INTERACTIONS
- IMPACTS OF HUMAN INTERACTIONS
- SOLUTIONS
- Domestic
- -Home / private use
-Drinking, pools,
showering
- Agricultural
- -Watering crops
(irrigation)
- Industrial
- -Heating, cooling and cleaning
-Power generation
-Manufacturing (mining/factories)