Wednesday, 6 April 2011

The hydrological cycle


Keywords

Inputs
precipitation (opady) - water in any form that falls from the sky

Transfers
Surface runoff/overland flow (spływ powierzchniowy) - water is not absorbed by soil but flows on the surface
Throughfall - water falling through the leaves 
Stemflow - water flowing through the stems
Infiltration (przenikanie) - the movement of water into the soil
Throughflow - movement of water through the soil
Percolation - when water slowly leaches into the rock
Groundwater flow/base flow - the water that infiltrated flows through the rock

Storage
Surface storage - the water that is stored on the surface in a depression
Interception storage - when plants are storing water on their surface
Vegetation storage - water that is cumulated inside the plant. 
Soil storage - water kept by soil
Groundwater Storage - water stored in rocks  
Channel Storage - water stored in rivers 
Ocean - the biggest body of water, which is salty

Outputs
Evaporation (parowanie) - changing water into water vapor
Transpiration - evaporation of water from plants
Sublimation - water change from ice into gas

other important words:
capacity (zdolność) - amount of water that can move or be stored in a particular place 
permeable (przepuszczalność) - water can move through 
concrete - beton, cement


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