IB Geography at Torquay Boys' Grammar School, Devon, UK

  

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Core Theme
populations in transition
disparities in wealth and development
environmental quality and sustainability
patterns in resource consumption

Options
freshwater issues and conflict
extreme environments
hazards and disasters

HL extension
measuring global interactions
changing space—the shrinking world
economic interactions and flows
environmental change
sociocultural exchanges
political outcomes
global interactions at the local level

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Freshwater > the water system
The hydrological cycle

KEY QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

What are the inputs, stores and transfers of the hydrological cycle?

Background reading and activities- Geography: An Integrated Approach 2nd Edition - Chapter 3, pages 50 and 51
Draw figure 3.1 - The drainage basin as an open system but in an artistic way! try to show the processes as they operate in a landscape cross-section like this, only better of course



BORING BUT IMPORTANT - make notes on the drainage basin processes and know how they interact

EXPLORE FURTHER...

The Water Cycle: color graphic showing the movement of water through the water cycle, from evaporation and transpiration to condensation, to water storage in the atmophere, to precipitation, to water storage in ice and snow, surface runoff, snowmelt runoff to streams, streamflow, and freshwater storage. A cut away shows the ground water portion of the water cycle, from infiltration to ground water storage and ground water discharge into springs and freshwater storage. Surface runoff, freshwater storage, ground water storage, and ground water discharge are all shown contributing to water storage in oceans, where the evaporation portion of the water cycle starts again.

us geological survey - water cycle

Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography  -  the hydrological cycle

 

KEY QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

What are the causes and consequences of the changing balance between water stored in the oceans and ice?

 

 
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us geological survey - water storage in the oceans 

Charts showing that 1.7 percent of Earth's water is ice and 68.7 percent of freshwater on Earth is ice.
us geological survey - water storage in ice and snow

The Water Balance

Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography - the water balance

 
 
 
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