geogpost-o-matic by Matthewlimtianwang

Hey All! This is Matthew And I'll be blogging what we learnt last lesson.
First off, we started talking about water from the hand out that we received.
We deduced that water.
-Has a high specific heat capacity.
>Its able to absorb more heat without turning into gas.
>Very big range in between states, solid, and gas.
-Many many things have water in it.
>Us!
>Plants
>Many things need water to manufacture.
-Drinkable
-Hydrogen bonds
>DNA
>Ice floats
-Ice
>Insulator, it protects the water that is not exposed to the air.
-Universal solvent
-The Earth is mostly water, but we cannot use ocean water as.
ITS TOO SALTY BABY!

okay, time to go on to the next part of the lesson.
the...
HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE
and unusually the caption is,
"what goes around comes around"

Made up of many parts,
Infiltration
Overland flows
etc..

I will scan in the entire picture next week when i get my scanner fixed.
Some terms that we've learnt that day was:
Infiltration Capacity - Rate at which water soaks into the soil.
>affected by:
->Saturation of water.
->Compaction, type of soil.
->Surface area exposed to the water.
->Porous, permeability of the soil.
->If the soil is frozen or not
->Vegetation

Water table - Demarcates the saturated and unsaturated zone, its not the same throughout the year.

Methods of input: Precipitation
Methods of output: Evotranspiration, which is a combination of transpiration and evaporation.

Storages - Groundwater, soil moisture.

Flows - Infiltration, overland flow.

Flows can also be in different categorieroots take in water
Inbetween surface and groundwater - Through flows.
Groundwater - Base flow
Vertically in the soil - Percolation

Interception - Anything that hinders movement of water from precipitation
> Vegetation - reduces impact of rain drops, reduces rain splash erosion.
->stuck in leaves
->roots take in water
->stemflow
->Throughfall






THATS ALL FOLKS!
bwahha.
Matt!