2 - Global Water Budget
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Practice Questions
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What is the largest reservoir of water on Earth?
💡 Hint: Think about where most of the Earth's water is stored.
Define 'precipitation'.
💡 Hint: Consider what you see falling from the sky.
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What percentage of water on Earth is found in oceans?
💡 Hint: Think of the largest body of water you know.
True or False: Freshwater sources are more abundant than ocean water.
💡 Hint: Remember the statistics we discussed earlier.
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Challenge Problems
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Assume an average area of a region receives 1,000 mm of rainfall annually. If 70% of this water is returned to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration, calculate the net water available for runoff.
💡 Hint: Subtract evapotranspiration from total precipitation.
Given that climate change is projected to decrease precipitation by 20% in a region, how would that impact the annual water budget if current precipitation is 500 mm?
💡 Hint: Calculate the percentage decrease and subtract it from the current precipitation total.
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