IB 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Evaporation, Hit 105, Evapotranspiration
2 Dec 2016
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Also, brain tissue literally shrinks when you are dehydrated, which can eventually create severely impaired brain function: only 2. 5% of earth"s water is fresh. However, less than 1% of earth"s water is available for drinking due to aquifers, glaciers, and ice caps: the two industries that use the most water are agriculture for growing plants and cooling down electric power plants. Water is one of the most important and limited resource on our planet. ~0. 5% of all water on earth is fresh: most of this is tied up in ice or glaciers, potable water is scarce, 25% of the (cid:449)orld"s populatio(cid:374) has li(cid:373)ited a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to it. Water is unevenly distributed, mountain creates a blockage, which creates a dry desert on other side (unevenly distributed across the globe. Evaporation- water moving from a liquid to a gas driven by sunlight: condensation- gaseous water (water vapor)rises and cools becoming very tiny droplets of liquid water to form clouds.
