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    Most of the water that falls as rain runs off the land as surface runoff into rivers or returns to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration. Surface runoff is the excess water from precipitation after infiltration into the soil. If a river system receives more water input than output, flooding will occur, while if output is greater than input, the river level will drop. Streams are important for transporting water and sediment despite containing a very small fraction of the Earth's total water. The three parts of a stream are the channel, floodplain, and drainage basin. Grand Canyon formed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through rock layers over millions of years. The river is now over 1.6 km below the canyon rim

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    Most of the water that falls as rain runs off the land as surface runoff into rivers or returns to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration. Surface runoff is the excess water from precipitation after infiltration into the soil. If a river system receives more water input than output, flooding will occur, while if output is greater than input, the river level will drop. Streams are important for transporting water and sediment despite containing a very small fraction of the Earth's total water. The three parts of a stream are the channel, floodplain, and drainage basin. Grand Canyon formed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through rock layers over millions of years. The river is now over 1.6 km below the canyon rim

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    Most of the water that falls as rain runs off the land as surface runoff into rivers or returns to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration. Surface runoff is the excess water from precipitation after infiltration into the soil. If a river system receives more water input than output, flooding will occur, while if output is greater than input, the river level will drop. Streams are important for transporting water and sediment despite containing a very small fraction of the Earth's total water. The three parts of a stream are the channel, floodplain, and drainage basin. Grand Canyon formed as the Colorado River and its tributaries cut through rock layers over millions of years. The river is now over 1.6 km below the canyon rim

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    Lecture 16: The Water Cycle- Hydrology and Streams

    1. There are three stages of the hydrologic cycle pictured below. Label each with the correct
    stage in the cycle and explain whats happening at that stage.

    2. What happens to most of the water that falls as rain?


    a) It stays in the soil
    b) It runs off the land in rivers
    c) It returns to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration
    d) It sinks into the groundwater zone
    3. What is surface run-off?
    a) The excess water after evaporation
    b) The excess water from precipitation after evaporation and infiltration
    c) The water from snow
    d) Precipitation and infiltration
    4. A. Describe the consequences of greater water input than water output in a river system? B. What if
    water output is great than water input?
    5. Oceans contain 97.2% of the Earths water, glaciers contain 2.8%, and streams contain
    only 0.0001%. Why are streams so important even though they manage only 0.0001% of
    the Earths water? Also, name and define the 3 parts of a stream.
    6. Water systems erode and transport significant amounts of sediment. List and describe the
    four modes of sediment transport.
    7. The residence time of water in Perma Lake is 2.5 years. The concentration of

    phosphorous in the inflowing stream in 1994 was 15 ug L-1and the volume of the lake is
    450 km3. Calculate the average rate of input of phosphorous into the lake at that time.
    Give your answer in units of kg yr-1.
    Tresidence= Vwater/Rate of input
    8. The ocean has an average depth of 3900 m and annual rate of evaporation of 1.3 m yr-1.
    Calculate the time it would take for the ocean to evaporate completely (assume 0 water
    input).
    9. Soil in Schenectady, NY, typically contains 30 cm/a of water equivalent. The region has
    an average precipitation of 60 cm/a and an evaporation rate of 50 cm/a. How many years
    will the water in the soil last if temperature rises and evaporation increases to 65 cm/a?
    10. Calculate the residence time of water in the atmosphere given that the total amount of
    water in the atmosphere is 1.6 x 1015 kg and has an input rate of water by evaporation of
    4.3 x 1016 kg/yr. Give your answer in days.
    11. Explain how Grand Canyon is formed? Why is the Colorado River ~ 1.6km below the top rim of the
    canyon?

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