WATER AND CARBON CYCLE DEFINITIONS

1. Graph of discharge of a river over the time period when the normal flow of the river is affected by a storm event (5, 10)
7. Water contained in the Earth's Oceans (7, 5)
8. A set of interrelated components working together towards some kind of process (6)
9. Store of carbon that absorbs more carbon than it releases (6, 4)

2. Consists of groundwater, soil moisture, lakes, wetlands and rivers (11, 5)
3. Time between peak rainfall and peak discharge (3, 4)
4. Technology of capturing greenhouse gas emissions from power stations and pumping them into underground reservoirs (3, 13)
5. Maximum discharge that a river channel is capable of carrying without flooding (8)
6. All the water that enters a river channel and eventually slows out of the drainage basin (3, 3)
10. Portion of the precipitation that reaches the ground directly through gaps in the vegetation canopy and drips from leaves, twigs and stems (10)

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