Impacts on water and carbon cycles

Cards (11)

  • 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