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DRAINAGE BASIN STORES In this essay I intend to give brief descriptions on 4 types of Drainage Basin Stores, and then explain how different human actions can influence these. As explained in previous pieces of work, the water system is made up of several stores and flows, one input (precipitation), and 3 outputs (run-off, evaporation, transpiration). The four main stores I am working on today are Interception, Soil, Surface and Ground water. Water will almost never land directly on a bare surface. Most commonly, when rain is falling it will first hit vegetation - e.g. the leaves on tree branches. The water can then be stored here. The term for this process is interception - the water has been intercepted from continuing through the hydrological cycle. However, the amount of water that is intercepted relies on a number of factors: * The Type of Vegetation - trees and grass would give very different...

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