Ecology reaches the soil moves entering the soil

Cells: 75-95% H2O into the ground seeps down to an

Earth: 75% H2O Depends on the type of
impervious layer of
Water Salinity: soil, slope, vegetation, clay or rock to
Freshwater and intensity of the
o Depth/flow H2O collect
precipitation Water finds its way
o Substrate
o Organisms 3.2) Surface Runoff - soil is into springs and
Solar Radiation driving force saturated, excess water streams
of water cycle flows across the surface Deep storage
Water cycle - process by which of the ground 3.5) Body of Water
water travels in a sequence - 85% of the 3.6) Evaporation
from the air to Earth and precipitation
returns to the atmosphere.
3.3) Transpiration - Rate in Evaporation
1) Precipitation - sets the
evaporation of water vapor in air:
water cycle in motion.
Water Vapor - water from internal saturation vapor pressure
circulating in the surfaces of leaves,
atmosphere, eventually stems, and other Flux movement of water
falls in some form of living parts reservoir to another
precipitation. - Evapotranspiratio
2) Interception - Some of Turnover time = size of
n - total amount
the water falls directly reservoir/ rate of output
of evaporating
on the soil and bodies
water from the (flux out)
of water.
Vegetation, dead surfaces of the
organic matter on the ground and
ground, and urban vegetation
structures and streets 3.4) Groundwater -
3.1) Infiltration -
Some water
Precipitation that