Geography Key Terms

3. flow The roughly horizontal flow of water through soil or regolith.
5. The movement of water through porous materials
6. A graph describing stream discharge over time.
7. flow Water only flows occasionally for intermittent rivers.
9. flow Underground topographic flow of groundwater because of gravity.
11. liquid or solid form, that develops in a saturated atmosphere and falls to the ground generally from clouds
13. Rocks with tiny little holes in.
16. The absorption and downward movement of water into the soil layer.
17. Climatic condition where water loss due to evaporation is greater than water inputs through precipitation.

1. Rock formations that store groundwater water.
2. flow The topographic movement of a thin film of water from precipitation to lower elevations
4. Objects the don’t allow water through
8. The loss of water vapour from parts of plants.
10. flow stem flow is the flow of intercepted water down the trunk or stem of a plant
12. Removal of water from rivers and lakes.
14. Evaporation can be defined as the process by which liquid water is converted into a gaseous state. Evaporation can only occur when water is available.
15. A river or stream's rate of flow over a particular period of time