Across
- 2. measure of soil’s ability to transmit water
- 6. ability of soil to store and release water
- 7. the portion of applied water that leaves the surface site as runoff
- 8. the zone where the water content sharply decreases with depth from the water content of the transmission zone to near the initial water content of the soil.
- 12. this supplies the energy necessary for the liquid water molecules to evaporate
- 17. Materials that protect soil surface
- 18. characterized by a rapid decrease in water content with depth and will extend approximately a few meters
- 19. a tool to measure the change in level of free water surface to determine the rate of evaporation
- 20. a device to measure the rate of water infiltration
- 21. net rate of vapor transfer
- 22. encompasses both soil physical properties and soil water properties
- 23. caused by vegetation or other types of surface cover
- 24. this method consists of drawing up a balance sheet of all the water entering and leaving a particular catchment
- 25. a tool to measure the water loss from a standard saturated surface
Down
- 1. factors the affect the movement of water through the air-soil interface
- 3. the saltiness or amount of salt dissolved in a body of water
- 4. an instrument that measures the loss of water from a wetted, porous surface.
- 5. characterized by a small change in water content with depth
- 9. sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth’s land and ocean surface to the atmosphere.
- 10. This has no disturbance to soil, close to true rainfall impact and mush costly than infiltrometer
- 11. the pore space in this zone is filled with water or saturated
- 13. characterized by a steep hydraulic gradient and forms a sharp boundary between the wet and dry soil.
- 14. process of water flow from one point to another within the soil
- 15. process of water entry into the soil from rainfall, snowmelt, or irrigation.
- 16. the process of water loss from plants through stomata