Its important that you understand these definition as it will come up again later on.
- Precipitation is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the earth
- Interception refers to precipitation that does not reach the soil, but is intercepted by leaves branches and plants
- Throughflow/ stemflow is the movement of water downslope within the soil layer
- Surface storage is the water that is stored
- Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil
- Soil water is the total volume of water flowing through a channel at any given points
- Vegetation store is water taken up by vegetation
- Percolation is the gravity flow of water within the soil that moves into the bedrock
- Groundwater store is a storage water underground impermeable rock
- Surface run off is the movement of water over the surface of the land
- Throwflow is water flowing through permeable rock
- Condensation is transformation of water vapour into liquid
- River run off is the draining of water from the surface of an area of land
- Channel store is the movement of water within a river channel
- Evaporation is the transformation of water into gas
- Transpiration is the evaporation of water from plant leaves