Runoff
Water that travels across the ground is called runoff. It occurs when excess water from sources like rainfall, snowmelt, or irrigation does not infiltrate into the soil and flows over the ground surface instead. Runoff can lead to erosion, flooding, and pollution.
Water that flows over the ground rather than soaking into the ground is called surface water. This can include streams, rivers, and runoff from precipitation.
Groundwater.
That is known as surface water. It can flow through rivers, streams, lakes, or other bodies of water above the ground.
The process of water moving across the surface of the land is called runoff. This occurs when precipitation or irrigation water flows over the ground instead of infiltrating into the soil. Runoff can lead to erosion, sedimentation, and the transport of pollutants.
Water that doesn't sink in but runs across the Earth's surface is called surface water. This includes rivers, streams, creeks, and runoff from rain or snowmelt that flows over the ground.
It is called a watershed!
Its not Oceans
river or lake
The hydrologic cycle is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration.As the water vapor rises it condenses to form clouds that return water to the land through precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. Precipitation falls on the earth and either percolates into the soil or flows across the ground. Usually it does both. When precipitation percolates into the soil it is called infiltration; when it flows across the ground it is called surface runoff. The amount of precipitation that infiltrates, versus the amount that flows across the surface, varies depending on factors such as the amount of water already in the soil, soil composition, vegetation cover and degree of slope.
The hydrologic cycle is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration.As the water vapor rises it condenses to form clouds that return water to the land through precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. Precipitation falls on the earth and either percolates into the soil or flows across the ground. Usually it does both. When precipitation percolates into the soil it is called infiltration; when it flows across the ground it is called surface runoff. The amount of precipitation that infiltrates, versus the amount that flows across the surface, varies depending on factors such as the amount of water already in the soil, soil composition, vegetation cover and degree of slope.