The short residence time of water in the atmosphere allows a water molecule to have a stronger ability to do which of the follow
ing, compared to a situation if the residence time in the atmosphere were larger? A. acquire potential energy and convert it to kinetic energy
B. participate in the hydrologic cycle
C. erode the surface
D. store and release latent heat
E. All of these.
Explanation: Residence time of water is the rate of water in a water reservoir such as the ocean or the atmosphere divided by how fast more water is added to it or lost from it.
While residence time is thousands of years in oceans, water in the atmosphere has a short residence time of abut 10 – 11 days. This allows it to participate in the hydrologic cycle which includes evaporation and precipitation. Water in the atmosphere precipitates as snow or rain, returning to other water reservoirs.
Scientists are of the opinion that global warming is a root cause of prolonged human interference with the natural environment and its due to the natural environment is contaminated by people and their technology the scientist all around the world are focusing on the positive and negative effects of climate change.
This change that has brought by the artificial use of nature by man for his survival and destruction of the earth that the Holocene epoch is going to create when it ends will be fatal for the planet.
henceforth science has made research labs around remote corners of the world trying to study sensitive environments and gather data and estimate the seasonal variations and fluctuations in patterns of the landscape from ice to land and then to water and then to complete transformation of the earth.
