1.

Thiessen polygon method Polygon A B C D E F G Precipitation (mm) (P)

78 115 130 140 160 175 185 A

Area (sq km) (A)

2 80 156 100 40 152 84 722

PxA
156 9.200 20.280 14.000 6.400 26.600 15.540 108.196

mm

2. Ten (10) hydrological processes from the hydrology cycle

a) Precipitation is the deposition of water from the atmosphere in solid or liquid. It covers a wide range of particle sizes and shapes such as rain, snow, hail and dew. b) Runoff is the movement over ground of rain water. It occurs when the rainfall is very heavy and when the rock and soil can absorb no more. c) Infiltration is the process of water entering rock or soil d) Transpiration is the biological process where by plants lose water vapour, mainly through pores in their leaves. e) Evaporation is the changing of a liquid into a vapour, or gas, at a temperature below the boiling point of that liquid f) Evapotranspiration is the release of water vapour from the earths surface by evaporation and transpiration g) Condensation is the change of a vapour or gas into liquid form. This change of state is accompanied by the release of latent heat, which alters the adiabatic temperature changing in rising air.

h) Ground water flow, in hydrologic terms, streamflow which results from precipitation that infiltrates into the soil and eventually moves through the soil to the stream channel. This is also referred to as base flow, or dry-weather flow i) Percolation is the filtering of water downwards through soil and trough the bedding planes, joints, and pores permeable rock. Measures the quantity of water moving in this way j) Interception is the holding of raindrops by plants as the water falls onto leaves, steams, and branches. When the plant can hold no more, the water will drip from the plant (throughfall) or run down the stem (stemflow). k) Overland flow is water flow overland because the soil or rock which it flows over has become saturde, that is, because the water table has come to the surface l) Base flow is the usua, reliable, backround level of a river, maintained generally by seepage from groundwater storage, but also by throughflow which mean that the river can maintain the base flow during dry period. m) Interflow is movement of water through soil, butat a greater depth than throughflow. It is difficult to separate the two processes in the field.