Hydrological cycle key terms

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  • HYDROLOGICA
    Relating to the scientific study of the properties, distribution, and effects of water on the earth's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere
  • Exporasany
    Relating to the exploration or investigation of something
  • CYCLE

    A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order
  • Elvar discharge
    The flow of water from a river or stream
  • exception
    A thing that is excluded from a general statement or does not follow a rule
  • We sable

    Able to be used or dealt with successfully
  • Soil water
    Water held in the spaces between soil particles
  • Store
    A place where something is kept or accumulated
  • Surface water

    Water that collects on the surface of the earth, such as in a stream, river, lake, wetland, or ocean
  • Chavel storage

    The storage of water in channels or streams
  • Througha
    The passage of water through something
  • Sterow
    The movement of water over the surface of the ground
  • Overland Bow
    The flow of water over the surface of the ground
  • Chase flow
    The movement of water in a channel or stream
  • Flow
    The movement of a liquid, gas, or other substance
  • nation
    The action or process of flowing
  • Flowe
    The movement of water
  • Percolation
    The movement of water through a porous substance
  • Throughflow
    The movement of water through the soil to a stream or river
  • Basefow
    The flow of water in a stream or river that is fed by groundwater seeping into the channel
  • Groundwater
    Water that is found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock
  • Racharge
    The process by which water is added to the zone of saturation, or groundwater
  • Springs
    A natural source of water where water flows out of the ground
  • Porosity
    The amount of void space in a material
  • Permety
    The ability of a material to allow fluids to flow through it
  • Aquilen
    A body of permeable rock or sediment that is saturated with water and can transmit significant quantities of water under ordinary hydraulic gradients
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    free precipitation that runs over ground
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  • de
    Movevent of water in channel such as streams
  • dvers
    The movement of water from the ground wurle
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    The vertical (downward movement of w
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    through pores and cracks
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    underkuence of gravity, to river channel
  • paule to the surface
    Flow of water below water table towards river
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