Precipitation: Water in any form that falls from the atmosphere to the surface of the Earth. It includes rain, snow, sleet and hail.
Runoff: All the water that enters a river eventually flows out of the drainage basin. It can be quantified by measuring a river's discharge.
Stemflow: Water that runs down the stems and branches of plants and trees during and after rain. Takes place after interception.
Throughfall: Water that drips off leaves during a rainstorm. It occurs when more water falls onto the interception layer of the tree canopy..
Throughflow: Water that moves down-slope through the subsoil, pulled by gravity.
Deposition: Laying down of solid material, sediment, on the bed of a river or sea floor.
Erosion: Break up of rocks by the action rock particles being moved over the Earth's surface by water, wind and ice.
Transporation: Movement of particles from the place they were eroded to the place where they're deposited.
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