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GURU CHARAN KUMAR/IB ESS 2012
HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT
ESS GRADE 11 SUMMATIVE-SEPTEMBER 2012
TIME: 1 HOUR MARKS: 45
1) The diagram below shows storages (in percentage of total water) and flows in the global
water cycle. The rates of flow are given in 1015
kg yr–1
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(a) (i) what is the source of energy which drives the water cycle? ........................ . (1)
(ii) In which of the processes given in the diagram does this energy enter the cycle?
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(b) (i) what percentage of all precipitation falls directly into the oceans?
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(ii) What percentage of all evaporated water comes from the oceans?
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(c) (i) Assuming the cycle is in steady state, what mass of water flows into the oceans
through run-off and groundwater flow per year?
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(ii) Explain why this figure might increase in the future, as a result of burning fossil
fuels.
CLOUDS0.001 %
ATMOSPHERICWATER VAPOUR
0.001 %
SURFACE WATER 0.001 %ICE 2 % GROUND WATER 1 %
OCEAN97 %
Condensation400
Precipitation 300
Precipitation 100
Evaporation 64
Evaporation 336
Run-off/groundwater flow
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(d) Name a storage of water in the biosphere that is not shown in the diagram, and explain how
water is transferred in and out of this storage.
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(e) (i) State briefly one way in which one of the other flows in the diagram might change if
evaporation rates were to increase.
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(ii) Describe how two changes in the flows shown on the diagram could lead to a fall in
global temperatures and reduce global warming.
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(iii) Name the type of feedback involved in this reduction in global warming.
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(f) Identify each of the different processes referred to on the diagram as either transfer or
transformation processes.
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(Total 20 marks)
2) a) Define the following terms.
(i) Negative feedback
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(ii) Positive feedback
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(b) Suggest why most ecosystems are negative feedback systems.
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The diagram below represents a coal fired power station.
[Source: Adapted from D D Kemp, Global Environment Issues, A Climatological Approach, (Taylor & Francis,1994) p.
7. Reproduced by permission of Cengage Learning]
(c) Complete the diagram above by naming the missing input and the two missing outputs. (2)
(Total 5 marks)
smoke
coal
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
warm water
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3) a) (i) State the first law of thermodynamics.
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(ii) Calculate the amount of energy output in the model below.
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(b) The diagram below represents a simplified hydrological cycle.
Input
1000 kJ
energy
10 % loss to
atmosphere
15 % stored
after loss to
atmosphere
OUTPUT = ?
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(i) Identify the processes corresponding to the arrows labeled 1 to 4 in the diagram.
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(ii) Suggest one weakness in the model above.
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4.
3.2.
1.
ATMOSPHERE
GROUND
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The graph below shows the estimated world water withdrawals from 1960 to 2000.
[J Loh, The Living Planet Report, © [2002] WWF (panda.org). Some rights reserved.]
(iii) Calculate the percentage increase in world water withdrawals from 1960 to 2000.
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(iv) Suggest three reasons for the increase in water withdrawals during the period 1960
to 2000.
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(Total 11 marks)
4) Figure 1 Relationship between number of Figure 2 Altitude habitat model 100
rodent species and altitude
4
3
2
1
0
Year
Water withdrawals /10 km yr 3 3 –1
200019951990198519801975197019651960
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(a) With reference to Figure 1 describe the relationship which appears to exist between altitude
and the number of rodent species.
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(b) Predict three ways in which the altitude habitat model in Figure 2 might change as a result
of global warming.
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(c) (ii) Explain the difference between an open system and a closed system.
100
Numbers
of
rodent
species
s snowline
mountain 0 Altitude in 3000
metres
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(b) The first and second laws of thermodynamics suggest that energy is neither made or lost,
merely transformed. Using a named ecosystem, outline how this occurs.
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(Total 9 marks)
