Environmental Science: Biochemical cycles

Reservoir

A location in which nutrients remains for a period of time

Residence time

How long nutrients says in a reservoir before moving onto another reservoir

Flux

The rate at which materials move between reservoirs

Source

When a reservoir releases more then it accepts

Sink

When a reservoir accepts more then it releases

Evaporation

Water that moves from bodies of water and moist soil that then goes into the amosphere

Transpiration

The release of water vaper by plants through their leaves or the evaporation from surfaces of organisms (ex. human sweat)