The water cycle is a cycle showing how water moves through our enviroment and how it changes through diffrent stages. In the water cycle evaporation occurs. Evaporation is when the water turns into a vapor subtance. it goes from a liquid to a gas. so it's a chemical change caused by the sun. evaporation happens when the sun heats up the water goes into the air as a gasous subtance. Water from evaportion is from bodies of water like lakes rivers streams and oceans. transpiration is when the roots of a plant carry water though the steam and the water is relased through the leaves as the vapor. There are some studies that say transpiration is 10% of the water in our atmoshpere. Transpiration occurs in plants. Condesation is when water vapor in the air gets cold, so the water the was just heated up form evaportaion or transipration was cooled to cause condensation, which is the vapor going back to a liquid form of water. when condensation in the atmoshpere happens it makes clouds. precipitation happens when the condensation that just made clouds get too heavy and falls to the ground as rain, snow, or hail. Infiltration is the water that saoks up into the ground after it rains. infiltration has many diffrent factors like precipitation, soil concentration, the richness of the siol, land cover, and slope of the land. surface runoff is water from parcipitaion goes over the surface of the land. now when this happens there are drains and water sheds to prevent the flooding of water. Ground water is water that is underground. water that is under gounrd is caused by infilration but then used by plants for trispiration. absorbtion is when the surface water is absorbed in the ground. all of thesse are involded in the water cycle becuase evaporation stars with the bodies of water. so when evaportaion occurs it condenses and makes clouds, called condensation, then when there is soo much condensation that the clouds get to heavy precipitation occurs, then because of precipitation the grund soaks up watr called infiltration then depending on how much precipitation there is surfae runoff, then the water that is help by infiltration is called ground water, ground water is also the absortion of watr in the ground, which is used by plants to start the whole cycle over agian with transpiration. then the cycle just keeps goign and going.
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so in a water shed there is a cycle as well.the flow of water starts wth the ground water that was caused by precipition. the ground water then can either useding the water shed drain into a wetland which would then drain into the rivers adstreams hch would theno into lakes to be evaportaed again and go through the water cycle agian agian and agian.
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A river is a body of water movng through diffrent altiudes because of gravity. some rivers and streams get there water becuase the ground itsn't able to absorb all fo the water so some water would runoff and go into rivers or streams. when there is too much runoff and alot of water goes into rivers or treams and then when teres too much water the streams and rivers will over flow causeing floods. depostion is when the gasous water vapor goes into something like a soild like frost snow or ice. it is caused by climate factors. rivers and streams cause erosionbexaue when the water is moveing acroos it can force or pick up rocks and sediment causeing erosion. Soem river types are black water, they are very low and acid like. Wht water, they look muddy and brown because there is so much sediment. then clear water is water that appers blue and very clean looking.
PICTURE LINKS
http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/graphics/river4sm.jpg
http://www.recycleworks.org/images/watershed_800.jpg
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycletranspiration.html
Howard Perlman
USGS United States Geoligical Sience
The water cycle
July 1st, 2011
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/
Kid Zone
Joseph Grant
Evaporation, condestion, precipitation
Febuary 11th, 1998
http://www.sciencedaily.com/articles/s/surface_runoff.htm
Dan Hogan
Science Daily
Suface runoff
rivers and streans types
august 23, 1995-2010
