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In this context, the movement of elements from one store to another is called transfers. It describes internal exchanges within a system—watering content moving between storage compartments like soil moisture, groundwater, or surface water. This differs from inputs, which add material to the system from outside, and outputs, which remove material from the system to the outside. The channel is the pathway through which water or elements move, but it’s not the label for the act of moving between stores. So the best term for this internal redistribution is transfers.