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When does an arid or semiarid occur?
occurs where precipitation is greater than potential evaporation.
Do deserts have more evaporation than precipitation?
Yes, due to the very low humidity, deserts experience more evaporation than precipitation.
How much precipitation and evaporation occurs over the ocean as compared to land?
This is a complex question, but in broad terms the oceans evaporate as little as 11 cms a year (recorded in 1977) up to 110 cms a year (recorded in 2003). The amount of rain on land is difficult to estimate or even impossible, tropical rainfal, for example, comprises of more than two thirds of the rainfall on Earth. As for evaporation, up to 80% occurs from the Oceans and Seas
What is is the water cycle?
Evaporation then condensation than precipitation.
Which defines a biome as a desert?
a rate of evaporation higher than precipitation
How does precipitation eventually return to the oceans?
Precipitation. Continued cooling of the water vapor in the clouds causes water droplets to grow. Eventually, droplets join other droplets and form drops too heavy to stay in the clouds. The heavy droplets begin to fall as rain. The movement of raindrops from the atmosphere to the Earth is precipitation. Snow may form instead of raindrops if the water vapor condenses below the freezing point.Some areas lose more water to evaporation than they gain as precipitation. Other locations receive more precipitation than they lose to evaporation. Whatever the form of precipitation, water lost by evaporation over the entire surface of the Earth equals the amount of water falling as precipitation.
Do areas near the equator experience more condensation and precipitation than areas near the poles?
Yes because the sun is very strong near the equator which means more evaporation happens. The more evaporation the more condensation. AKA the water cycle.
How does the location of the Columbia river effect it climate?
I think that the location of the river affect its climate? is Becauseof the river, there is more precipitation than if it wasn't there. This happens because the water cycle needs water and it gets that from the river. Then because of the evaporation, condensation occurs and therefor it rains a lot more if there wasn't a river.
How does the desert get rain but it is still dry?
The evaporation rate of a desert is much greater than the precipitation rate.
What is the sort of weather in the desert?
The weather is very dry, less than 250mm precipitation, or, less precipitation than is lost through evaporation. Desert is not necessarily related to hot temperatures; the two largest deserts are the Arctic and Antarctic, each more than 50% larger than the #3 contender, the Sahara.
When does evaporation occurs for a given substance?
Evaporation is the phenomenon of transformation from liquid to gas which occur at the surface of the liquid. Evaporation is possible also at a temperature lower than the boiling point.
When precipitation is less than potential evaporation what is likely to happen to soil moisture storage?
The soil moisture storage will decrease.
