Hydrology: Science of Earth's Waters
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What does hydrology study?

  • The occurrence and circulation of water (correct)
  • The distribution of minerals
  • The properties of air
  • The properties of water
  • What percentage of water on Earth is fresh water?

  • 3% (correct)
  • 0.3%
  • 97%
  • 50%
  • What is the portion of precipitation that appears in the surface streams called?

  • Runoff (correct)
  • Saline water
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Groundwater
  • Where does about 97% of water on Earth occur?

    <p>As saline water in seas and oceans</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the only chemical compound that occurs in normal conditions as a solid, a liquid, and a gas?

    <p>Water</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What represents only about 0.3% of really mobile fresh water?

    <p>The flow that contributes to rainfall, evaporation, and stream flow</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the common unit used to express runoff?

    <p>Cumec</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is runoff from different drainage basins commonly compared?

    <p>Cumec per square kilometer</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the particularly useful unit for comparing runoff rate or volume with precipitation?

    <p>Millimeters per day</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term is used to describe the movement of water, in the three phases of gas, liquid, and solid, from the ocean, land, or living matter into the atmosphere?

    <p>Hydrological cycle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What process refers to the abstraction of precipitation by seeping into the soil below the ground surface?

    <p>Infiltration</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What factor does infiltration rate depend on?

    <p>Vegetative cover</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the storage effects of the surface layers of the earth responsible for?

    <p>Reducing runoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How is precipitation almost invariably expressed?

    <p>Millimeters per day</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the single strongest variable driving hydrologic processes?

    <p>Precipitation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What phenomenon causes some water vapor in the atmosphere to turn into liquid or ice (snow)?

    <p>Condensation process</p> Signup and view all the answers

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