Quiz 1

Midterm Hydrology
Evaporation
Test 1
True or False
Test 1 True or False

1. When water evaporates it is heavier

than air
Test 1 True or False

2. When enough energy, in the form of

heat, is imparted to the solution the
vapor pressure becomes equal to the
atmospheric pressure and the liquid
begins to boil.
Test 1 True or False

3. Heat from the sun, or solar energy,

powers the evaporation process
Test 1 True or False

4. Sublimation is the process by which

water passes directly from the liquid
phase to the vapor phase
Test 1 True or False

5. Evaporation is directly proportional to

the temperature of evaporating surface.
The colder the evaporating surface, the
higher the rate of evaporation
Test 1 True or False

6. Wherever there is a combination of

high temperature, very low relative
humidity and strong wind, the rate of
evaporation is exceptionally high
Test 1 True or False

7. Rate of evaporation is the amount of

water evaporated from a unit surface
volume per unit of time
Test 1 True or False

8. Evaporation pan is a measuring

device which can be used to measure the
amount of actual evapotranspiration
which is released by plants, usually crops
or trees.
Test 1 True or False

9. Lysimeter is a scientific instrument

used for measuring the rate of water
evaporation from a wet surface to the
atmosphere.
Test 1 True or False

10. Transpiration is the process of water

vapor from a living body through a
membrane of pores
Test 1 True or False

11. Bowen ratio is the ratio of sensible

heat to latent heat and requires detailed
measurement of net radiation, soil heat
flux, temperature and humidity gradient
above a surface.
Test 1 True or False

12. Rainfall Frequency is the highest

levels of interception loss occur when the
leaves are dry and interception storage is
large, so the duration and amount of
rainfall is more significant than the
frequency of re-wetting
Test 1 True or False

13. Transpiration occurs as part of

photosynthesis and respiration.
Test 1 True or False

14. Potential evaporation occurs over the

land’s surface, or would occur if the
water supply were restricted. This occurs
when a soil is dry and what evaporation
is able to happen occurs without a lack of
water supply.
Test 1 True or False

15. Aerodynamic profile is based on a

detailed knowledge of the energy
balance over a surface.
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Test 2 Fill in the blanks

1. There are two types of vaporization:

Evaporation and _____.
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2. Under _____, bubbles cannot

form since the vapor pressure is less
than atmospheric pressure.
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3. _____ the evaporating surface,

higher the rate of evaporation.
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4. _____ is the sum of evaporation

and plant transpiration from the
Earth's land and ocean surface to the
atmosphere.
Test 2 Fill in the blanks

5. Interception can be defined as

that segment of the gross
precipitation input which wets and
adheres to aboveground objects
until it is returned to the
atmosphere through_____.
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6. The ____ is the water which falls

through spaces in the vegetation
canopy, or which drips from the
leaves, twigs and stems and falls to
the ground
Test 2 Fill in the blanks

7. Eddy Fluctuation is a method that

measures the water vapor above a
surface in conjunction with a vertical
wind speed and _____.
Test 2 Fill in the blanks

8. The _____ is the differences in

temperature
without evatranspiration
Test 2 Fill in the blanks

9. The empirical estimates of

depression storage for impervious
surfaces is _____
Test 2 Fill in the blanks

10. _____ is the term applied to

water that is lost because it becomes
trapped in the numerous small
depressions that are characteristic of
any natural surface
Test 3
Enumeration
Test 2. Enumeration

1-4. factors Influencing evaporation

5-6. two methods for measurement of
evaporation
7-9. types of evaporation
10-13 Tropical Rainforest vegetation levels
14-15 indirect measurement of evaporation