Describe a soil-water budge for a Northern Hemisphere middle latitude climate with its greatest precipitation in the summer

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The precipitation increases into the summer, but evapotranspiration typically increases faster. At first, the soil moisture is used and then plants will wilt later in the summer as there is a lack of usable soil moisture. As fall comes the soil moisture recharges because the precipitation comes faster than evapotranspiration can remove the moisture. Eventually, there will be a surplus.

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A) by getting an education so that they can earn more money B) by saving their money until they can afford items that they need and want C) by working more hours than they did in the 1960s D) by continually seeking better employment with a higher salary E) by mooching off their parents

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Bangladesh has expanded its farmland by

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____________ ____________ are small, sediment-covered extinct volcanoes or intrusions of once-molten rock less

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