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What does hydrology study?
What does hydrology study?
What percentage of water on Earth is fresh water?
What percentage of water on Earth is fresh water?
What is the portion of precipitation that appears in the surface streams called?
What is the portion of precipitation that appears in the surface streams called?
Where does about 97% of water on Earth occur?
Where does about 97% of water on Earth occur?
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What is the only chemical compound that occurs in normal conditions as a solid, a liquid, and a gas?
What is the only chemical compound that occurs in normal conditions as a solid, a liquid, and a gas?
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What represents only about 0.3% of really mobile fresh water?
What represents only about 0.3% of really mobile fresh water?
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What is the common unit used to express runoff?
What is the common unit used to express runoff?
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How is runoff from different drainage basins commonly compared?
How is runoff from different drainage basins commonly compared?
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What is the particularly useful unit for comparing runoff rate or volume with precipitation?
What is the particularly useful unit for comparing runoff rate or volume with precipitation?
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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?
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?
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What process refers to the abstraction of precipitation by seeping into the soil below the ground surface?
What process refers to the abstraction of precipitation by seeping into the soil below the ground surface?
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What factor does infiltration rate depend on?
What factor does infiltration rate depend on?
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What is the storage effects of the surface layers of the earth responsible for?
What is the storage effects of the surface layers of the earth responsible for?
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How is precipitation almost invariably expressed?
How is precipitation almost invariably expressed?
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What is the single strongest variable driving hydrologic processes?
What is the single strongest variable driving hydrologic processes?
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What phenomenon causes some water vapor in the atmosphere to turn into liquid or ice (snow)?
What phenomenon causes some water vapor in the atmosphere to turn into liquid or ice (snow)?
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