river environments - hydrological cycle

Question 1

infiltration

Answer 1

water soaks or filters into the soil

Question 2

surface run-off

Answer 2

water moves across the surface of the earth becoming a stream, tributary or river

Question 3

precipitation

Answer 3

an input where water is introduced to the drainage basin system

Question 4

evapotranspiration

Answer 4

water is evaporated from the trunk and leaves of other vegetation, back into the atmosphere

Question 5

through flow

Answer 5

water moves downhill through the soil

Question 6

groundwater flow

Answer 6

water moving slowly through the soil and porous rocks to move back towards the sea

Question 7

percolation

Answer 7

water moving from the soil into the spaces (pores in the rock)

Question 8

watershed

Answer 8

the edge of highland surrounding a drainage basin and it marks the boundary between two drainage basins

Question 9

evaporation

Answer 9

heat from the sun causes the water to evaporate

Question 10

examples of water stores

Answer 10

glacier, ice sheet, salt-water store, condensation

Question 11

examples of transfers

Answer 11

evaporation, surface run-off, aquifer, infiltration