IB ESS Topic 4.1 vocab quiz

What is the term for build up of salt in soil after the water evaporates?

• chemical pollution

• desalinisation

• Salinisation

• acidification

Applying water to areas of land that are growing crops

• agriculture

• irrigation

• floods

• rain

loss of water into the atmosphere from a body of water

• leaching

• osmosis

• transpiration

• evaporation

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the movement of H₂O between different storages by different processes and flows.

• hydrologic cycle

• carbon cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• weather cycle

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An underground store of water.

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the movement of water in soil deeper underground, and finally into a storage zone.

• runoff

• infiltration

• percolation

• leaching

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water is unable to penetrate through the material

• nonpliable

• porous

• pervious

• impervious

the time taken for water to completely replace itself in part of the system.

• turnover time

• replacement time

• storage time

• waiting time

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the amount of heat (energy) that water can absorb.

• heat capacity

• thermohaline

• heat inversion

• thermocline

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If water cannot move through a substance, then that substance is -