geography
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- Created on: 21-01-14 20:14
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- Geography - Rivers and coast
- Rivers
- The hydrological cycle/water cycle
- Precipitation - All water released from clouds e.g. rain,snow,hail,sleet and fog
- Surface runoff - Water flowing across the surface. The water maybe in a channel e.g. a river or stream
- Interception - When water collects on objects e.g. leaves and roots.
- Infiltration - When water soaks into soil.
- Throughflow - When water soaks into the soil and seeps towards a river or the sea.
- Percolation - The downwards movement of water from soils to rocks.
- Groundwater flow - The movement of water through the water table. Which is stored underground.
- Evaporation - When water is heated by the sun becomes vapour.
- Transpiration - When water evaporates from leaves to the atmosphere.
- Evapotranspiration - The term for both evaporation and transpiration.
- Condensation - When water vapour is cooled and turns into water vapour.
- Water table - The upper level of saturated ground.
- The drainage basin
- The drainage basin is the area of land drained by a river and its tributaries. E.g. Nile and Mississipi.
- The boundary of the drainage basin is called the WATERSHED.
- The hydrological cycle/water cycle
- Rivers
- The hydrological cycle/water cycle
- Precipitation - All water released from clouds e.g. rain,snow,hail,sleet and fog
- Surface runoff - Water flowing across the surface. The water maybe in a channel e.g. a river or stream
- Interception - When water collects on objects e.g. leaves and roots.
- Infiltration - When water soaks into soil.
- Throughflow - When water soaks into the soil and seeps towards a river or the sea.
- Percolation - The downwards movement of water from soils to rocks.
- Groundwater flow - The movement of water through the water table. Which is stored underground.
- Evaporation - When water is heated by the sun becomes vapour.
- Transpiration - When water evaporates from leaves to the atmosphere.
- Evapotranspiration - The term for both evaporation and transpiration.
- Condensation - When water vapour is cooled and turns into water vapour.
- Water table - The upper level of saturated ground.
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