Impacts on water and carbon cycles

• increase in ____ or ___ water storage on a ____ _____?

  meltwater, surface, local scale
• evaporation rates will _____ but not to extent that it will generate _____?

  Increase , precipitation
• if active layer continue to ____, there will be ____ in this layer, leading to _____ ____ of _____?

  thaw, vegetation, increased rates, transpiration
• decrease in ____ ___, due to melting permafrost?

  cryosphere stores
• there are significant ___ ____ on the water cycle?

  local impacts
• there is a localised ____ _____?

  albedo effect
• due to melting of permafrost, there will be increased ____ of ___ ____ or ____ ___ over permafrost, this will increase ___ ___ rates to ___ ____?


  saturation, active layer, overland flow, river discharge, Yukon River
• the growing season in the Alaskan Tundra is ____ and slow, due to ___ ____?

  short, lower temperatures
• melting of permafrost means that _____ of ___ ___ ___ will restart, and this will be _____ decomposition as soil is ____ ____ and ____ ____, this will lead to the release of the ___ ___, ____ which is a much more _____ greenhouse gas and absorbs __ times more heat than ___ ____?


  decomposition, dead organic matter, anaerobic, water logged, oxygen poor, carbon compound, methane, potent, 20, carbon dioxide
• there will be an increase in ____ ____ due to melting of _____ as vegetation will begin to ____?

  Biological carbon, permafrost, grow
• if vegetation begins to grow, ____ as well as _____ will take place?

  photosynthesis, respiration