A Level Geography - The Water Cycle - Statistics

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Definition	Key word	% Correct
The process by which water vapour changes to liquid water	Condensation	91%
The process by which liquid water changes to a gas	Evaporation	88%
The loss of water from vegetation through pores on their surface	Transpiration	53%
The downward movement of water from the surface into soil	Infiltration	47%
All the water that enters a river channel and eventually flows out of the drainage basin	Run-off	39%
The downward movement of water within the rock under the soil surface	Percolation	38%
A part of the system where energy/mass is stored or transformed	Store	35%
The movement of water down-slope through the subsoil under the influence of gravity	Throughflow	35%
The total output of water from the drainage basin directly back into the atmosphere	Evapotranspiration	34%
A form of linkage between one store/component and another that involves movement of energy or mass	Flow	32%
The slow movement of water through underlying rocks	Groundwater flow	26%
The addition of matter and/or energy into a system	Input	24%
This is an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries	Drainage basin	23%
This applies to any water store that has reached its maximum capacity	Saturated	20%
The portion of precipitation intercepted by the canopy that reaches the ground by flowing down stems, stalks or tree bole	Stemflow	20%
The tendency of water to flow horizontally across land surfaces when rainfall has exceeded the infiltration capacity of the soil and all surfce stores are full to overflowing	Overland flow	19%
A discontinuous layer of water at or near the Earth's surface	Hydrosphere	16%
A set of interrelated components working together towards some kind of process	System	14%
The balance between inputs and outputs in a drainage basin	Water balance	12%
Water found in the atmosphere	Atmospheric water	9%
The water locked up on the Earth's surface as ice	Cryospheric water	9%
The water contained in the Earth's oceans and seas but not including inland seas	Oceanic water	8%
The portion of the precipitation that reaches the ground directly through gaps in the vegetation canopy and drips from leaves, twigs and stems	Throughfall	8%
This consists of groundwater, soil moisture, lakes, wetlands and rivers	Terrestrial water	7%
Those processes that affect the total mass of ice at any scale	Cryospheric processes	5%
The precipitation that falls on the vegetation surfaces or human-made cover and is temporarily stored on these surfaces	Interception storage	5%

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