ENV100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Fictitious Force, Westerlies, Cold Front
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Amd: stage 3: refining/sheltering: discharge of airborne contaminants, including heavy metals; organics; sulphur, etc. , slag heaps, indirect effects from energy use, stage 4: post-operational: discharge of contaminants into surface water, Water: water shapes the surface of the earth in three ways: atmosphere, on surface, under the ground. Water in the atmosphere is important in moving heat from equator to the poles: rises as vapour; falls as rain/snow. Water on surface moves things with ocean currents (carrier for substances) and sculpts terrestrial landscape. Water is locked up in minerals in the earth"s mantle makes the mantle elastic; affects the dynamics of plate tectonics. Earth, only 2. 5% is freshwater (= few dissolved salts: hydrological cycle systems perspective: reservoirs: - ocean; ice caps and glaciers; and then groundwater. Processes: - precipitation, surface runoff, infiltration, percolation, evaporation, transpiration. Catchments have inputs and outputs (p = r + et + s).
