Height above sea or ground level?

Height above sea or ground level?

• A. Altitude
• B. Surface storage
• C. Stemflow
• D. Aeration zone

Answer: (A)

Height above sea or ground level is described by altitude, which is the vertical distance of a point from mean sea level (and is often used with reference to ground level on maps). Altitude is the term used in hydrology and geography to describe how high something sits relative to sea level, and it helps explain how conditions like rainfall patterns or watershed slopes can vary with elevation. The other terms refer to processes or parts of the soil system—surface storage is water stored on the land surface, stemflow is water that travels down plant stems to the ground, and the aeration zone is the unsaturated soil layer above the water table—so they don’t describe height above sea or ground level.

Height above sea or ground level is described by altitude, which is the vertical distance of a point from mean sea level (and is often used with reference to ground level on maps). Altitude is the term used in hydrology and geography to describe how high something sits relative to sea level, and it helps explain how conditions like rainfall patterns or watershed slopes can vary with elevation. The other terms refer to processes or parts of the soil system—surface storage is water stored on the land surface, stemflow is water that travels down plant stems to the ground, and the aeration zone is the unsaturated soil layer above the water table—so they don’t describe height above sea or ground level.