Geographyrivers
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- loss of moisture from surfaces and soil at is turns to vapour
- evaporation
- loss of moisture from vegetation
- transpiration
- water vapour cooling and becoming liquid water forming clouds
- condensation
- water falling to earth as either rain, slow , sleet hail
- precipitation
- water being stored in pools, lakes or puddles
- surface storage
- precipitation being caught by leaves and branches
- interception
- water flowing into rivers or sea over the ground (sometimes called overland flow)
- surface run off
- water moving down through the soil
- infilteration
- water moving sideways through rocks into rivers and streams
- through flow
- water moving downward into rock, greatest in permeable rock like chalk and limestone.
- percolation
- water moving sideways through rocks into rivers or streams
- groundwater flow
- water being stored in the soil
- soil moisture storage
- the level of saturation in the soil/rock (where all the pores between the soil/rock particles are full of water
- water table