Water Cycle

Loreto Cant A01194137

Monica Lugo A01194302
Paola Morales A01194327
Raquel Torre A01194547
Cecilia Reyes A01194468
Javier Santisteban A01194473
Roman Pez A01194335
Regina Martnez A01194538

Statistics about Water

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Roughly 70% of an adults body is made up of water

By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1% of its
total water amount
1 billion people lack access to clean water
there is the same amount of water on Earth as there was when the Earth
was formed. The water from your faucet could contain molecules that
dinosaurs drank
While three-quarters of the Earths surface is covered with water, less
than one percent of that water is drinkable
water regulates the Earths temperature
a person can live about a week without water
the average total home water used for each person in the U. S. is about
50 gallons a day
water expands by 9% when it freezes. Ice is lighter than water, which is
why it floats in water
with 97.5% being salt water and 2.5% being fresh water. Of the fresh
water, only 0.3% is in liquid form on the surface

What is the Water Cycle?

The water cycle describes the
existence and movement of water
on, in, and above the Earth. Earth's
water is always in movement and is
always changing states, from liquid
to vapor to ice and back again.here
is a net movement of water vapor
onto land, where precipitation
results in the eventual flow of
surface water and groundwater
back to the sea. The Earth would be
a pretty stale place without it.

Process involved in the Water Cycle

Evaporation: Evaporation is when the sun heats up water and turns it into vapour or steam.
The vapour leaves the river and goes into the air.
Condensation: Condensation is when vapour in the air gets cold and turns into liquid and
forms clouds.
Precipitation: Precipitation occurs when too much water has condensed in the clouds and
cant hold it anymore, water falls back to the earth. (Rain, snow, hail, sleet, hail)
Run-off: Run off is the stage where water that falls back to the surface after precipitation
flows off to water bodies like rivers, lakes, ponds and reservoirs or it stays in the surface
of the earth.
Transpiration: After plants absorb the water from the soil and send it to the leaves through
the stem, few molecules of water are later evaporated from the plant. The sweating" of
plants is called transportation.
Infiltration: The rest of the molecules after transpiration go through infiltration: this happens
when the water on the surface of the earth sucks down the ground. It later forms
aquifers in low-lying regions.

How do human activities impact the

water cycle?
1)Discharges:
water to irrigate crops. When water
We sometimes add substances to
is removed from natural source
the water intentionally or not
some nutrients are lost so farmers
intentionally. When the water falls
use more fertilisers polluting the
to the ground it runs through rivers
waterways.
and lakes that carry out pesticides 4)Hydroelectricity:
and in urban areas this includes gas,
This human activity helps create a
oil that ends up harming animal life
source of energy helpful to the
and plant life that reduces the ability
environment. This is usually placed
for those living things to reproduce.
in waterfall places that makes a
2)Deforestation:
turbine move and generate energy.
Trees release water vapors
Although this is sometimes
producing humidity, this evaporated
problematic to some plants that live
and later precipitate. With
in those waterfalls.
deforestation weather is affected 5)Greenhouse effect:
causing less rain in the area.
Trapped gases turn into infrared
3)Irrigation:
radiation that moderated earth
Human population growing makes temperature range.
the demand of food go high and to
make more food we need more

Bibliography
All about water: http://www.allaboutwater.org/water-facts.html
Buzzle: Steps of the Water Cycle:http://www.buzzle.com/articles/steps-of-the-watercycle.html
Epa: http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/drinkingwater/waterfactsoflife.cfm
Science Learning: http://sciencelearn.org.nz/Contexts/H2O-On-the-Go/Science-Ideas-andConcepts/Humans-and-the-water-cycle
http://www.creditvalleyca.ca/watershed-science/our-watershed/the-water-cycle/howhumans-affect-the-water-cycle/
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