GER400H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Water Cycle, Hydrosphere, Advection

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13 Mar 2018
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The hydrologic cycle (p. 252, the hydrologic cycle describes the transition of water from land to sea to air, evaporation plays a major role in the movement of water from the surface to the atmosphere. This is done through temperature or wind causing water on the suface to change to vapor. Perhaps one-third of the excess co2 released into the air each year by human activity is absorbed by the oceans. The absorbed co2 then forms carbonic acid (h2co3), a weak acid. This process is known as thermohaline circulation: there is constant motion in the ocean in the form of a global ocean conveyor belt. Greenland: the cryosphere holds a large percentage of the earth"s water content, the ice in the cryosphere contains no salt, most permanent ground ice is permafrost, which is permanently frozen subsoil. It is widespread in northern canada, alaska, and siberia and found in small patches in many high mountain areas.

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