GEO 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lake Baikal, Surface Runoff, Transpiration

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 110
• Professor: Richard Ross Shaker

Document Summary

Hydro cycle: 5 key components: precipitation, runoff, surface and groundwater storage, evaporation/transpiration, condensation. The 2 processes change liquid water into vapor so it can ascend into the atmosphere. Evaporation is more prevalent over the oceans than precipitation. Most water evaporated from the oceans fall back into the oceans as precipitation. Rain onto vegetation and then to the ground. Flow across the surfaces as over land flow. The process of water loss from plants through stomata. Only 1% of water transpired used for growth. Transports nutrient from soil into the roots and carries them to cells through plant. Accounts for about 10% of moisture in the atmosphere. Zone of depression: the example with the well stealing the watershed from the farm. Streamflow is a . 002% of the earth"s water. Fresh water makes up roughly 3% of all water on earth and lakes and swamps account for merely 0. 29% of that.