Carbon & Water Cycle

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Decks in this class (15)

Global Distributions of Water
Oceanic water,
Sea ice,
Ice sheets
13  cards
Processes driving change in water stores
Mnemonic to remember processes dr...,
Precipitation,
Evaporation
4  cards
Drainage basins stores and transfers
What is a drainage basin,
Input into a drainage basin,
Outputs of a drainage basin
11  cards
Water balance and flood hydrographs
What is water balance,
What is a river regime,
Precipitation
9  cards
Physical and Human factors affecting flooding
Precipitation,
Snowmelt,
Low lying land
16  cards
Global distributions of carbon
In the lithosphere,
In the hydrosphere,
In the biosphere
4  cards
Factors driving change in the carbon cycle
Photosynthesis,
Respiration,
Decomposition
7  cards
Factors causing long term change to the carbon cycle
Natural activity,
Volcanic activity,
Wildfires
9  cards
Impacts of change to the carbon cycle
Ocean acidification,
Ocean warming,
Ocean salinity
5  cards
Interrelationships between carbon and water cycles
The water cycle is of the carbon ...,
The carbon cycle is on the water ...,
Carbon cycle needs the water cycl...
6  cards
Ways to reduce the impact of the changes to the carbon and water cycles
Carbon capture carbon sequestrati...,
Example of carbon capture tech,
Rural land use change
8  cards
Case study: Examples of land use change
Examples 3,
Amazon,
S england
4  cards
Case study: Carbon capture
What is carbon capture,
Captured by,
Transport methods
5  cards
Case study: Amazon Rainforest
Location,
Role of carbon in amazon,
Role of water in amazon
9  cards
Case study: River Exe
Location,
Water balance of river exe,
2 examples of developments
7  cards

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