On average, about 21% of all precipitation becomes runoff into streams, rivers, and lakes, while around 79% infiltrates the ground to become groundwater. These ratios can vary depending on factors such as soil composition, land cover, and climate conditions.
The sun, which drives the water cycle, heats water in the oceans. Water evaporates as vapor into theair. Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor. Evapotranspiration is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Snowpacks can thaw and melt, and the melted water flows over land as snowmelt. Most precipitation falls back into the oceans or onto land, where the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers in valleys in the landscape, with streamflow moving water towards the oceans. Runoff and groundwater are stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers. Much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes aquifers, which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface-water bodies (and the ocean) as groundwater discharge. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and comes out as freshwater springs. Over time, the water returns to the ocean, where our water cycle started.
The condition most likely to exist in this scenario is that the soil is saturated or at field capacity. This means that the soil is holding as much water as it can and any additional precipitation will result in runoff.
The five factors that determine the amount of runoff in an area are precipitation, soil type, slope of the land, land cover, and human activities such as urbanization and deforestation. These factors influence how much water can infiltrate the ground versus how much flows over the surface as runoff.
The amount of runoff in an area depends on various factors, including the amount of precipitation, soil type, slope of the land, vegetation cover, and human activities such as urbanization and deforestation. These factors affect how much water can infiltrate into the soil versus how much water flows over the surface as runoff.
The five main factors that affect the amount of runoff an area gets are precipitation intensity, soil type, vegetation cover, slope of the land, and human activities such as urbanization and deforestation. These factors influence how much water is absorbed into the ground versus how much flows over the surface as runoff.
Plants only give off a little amount of water because there is no way a plant can give off a lot of water. Plants get their water from the runoff, groundwater, and precipitation.
The sun, which drives the water cycle, heats water in the oceans. Water evaporates as vapor into theair. Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor. Evapotranspiration is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Snowpacks can thaw and melt, and the melted water flows over land as snowmelt. Most precipitation falls back into the oceans or onto land, where the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers in valleys in the landscape, with streamflow moving water towards the oceans. Runoff and groundwater are stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers. Much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes aquifers, which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface-water bodies (and the ocean) as groundwater discharge. Some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and comes out as freshwater springs. Over time, the water returns to the ocean, where our water cycle started.
It falls as precipitation, such as rain, or hail.
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60 to 150 inches of rainfall
The rain forest precipitation is greater that 150 cm. Rain forest precipitation is basically how much rain falls and collects on earth.
30 - 60 in.
The condition most likely to exist in this scenario is that the soil is saturated or at field capacity. This means that the soil is holding as much water as it can and any additional precipitation will result in runoff.
The five factors that determine the amount of runoff in an area are precipitation, soil type, slope of the land, land cover, and human activities such as urbanization and deforestation. These factors influence how much water can infiltrate the ground versus how much flows over the surface as runoff.
All of it eventually returns, but if it goes into the groundwater system it may take hundreds of thousands of years. Otherwise, it generally either evaporates or runs in to rivers that take it to the ocean within a matter of days or weeks, if it falls deep in a continent.
The amount of runoff in an area depends on various factors, including the amount of precipitation, soil type, slope of the land, vegetation cover, and human activities such as urbanization and deforestation. These factors affect how much water can infiltrate into the soil versus how much water flows over the surface as runoff.