Water Cycle Effects

Over the past decade, the world has experienced more natural disaster than people can count. Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and raging fires are just a few of the events that have stripped people away from their families, homes, and possessions. The deadliest of these natural disasters are hurricanes. Extremely strong winds mixed with large waves can cause enormous damage, taking months, even years for towns to recover. Hurricane Katrina left millions of people without homes and families torn apart. Hurricane Sandy demolished the Jersey coast, leaving years of repair work behind. The most recent and powerful hurricane that surfaced is Hurricane Maria. A level five hurricane, Hurricane Maria ripped straight through the United States territory of Puerto Rico. The island lost power, supplies

Hurricane Maria has hit Puerto Rico, destroying buildings leaving its approximately 3.4 million residents largely without electricity. Hurricane Maria crashed into Puerto Rico early Wednesday as a “Potentially Catastrophic” Category 4 storm that was set to become the most powerful to strike the US territory in almost 90 years.

The earth is like a living organism; it thrives full of life with a fragile balance. This balance has been thrown off by many different things. Water seems to be one of the biggest problems with this offset balance. Water is a magic liquid keeping all of life thriving. Humans drink and use water, plants use water, water is used in everyday life, and it’s slowly being taken away. In the future, there will be no water left to sustain life on earth.

The hydrological cycle is where water is stored in places like oceans and ponds, and then evaporated. Next, the water is condensed. Finally, water is rained down as precipitation and accumulates in ponds and oceans. This cycle continues repeatedly. Human activities that are detrimental to this cycle

The water supply on earth plays a huge role in daily lives. You need to have clean water to drink, do laundry and water your garden. Since water is necessary, the future water supply is very important for future generations. They will need clean water to use daily. Society can not let the water become so polluted and unsanitary that future generations can not use it for their daily needs. Water supply is affected by humans and the area surrounding the water.

The water cycle represents how water is exchanged and cycled through Earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere (2010 pg.1). Evaporation, condensation, and precipitation are all three main factors within the water cycle. Evaporation occurs when a liquids surface changes to gas. For example, when water from rivers, oceans or lakes evaporate, it becomes water vapor. Condensation occurs when gas changes to a liquid. For example, clouds form when water vapor condescends. Precipitation is described as any liquid or solid water that falls to earth from above. A great and simple example would be rain, snow or hail (2010 pg.1). Within the water cycle, there are three states of water: solid, liquid and gas. Most of Earth’s freshwater is

The water cycle of the Earth is in constant balance, evaporating water from the oceans and other bodies of water, and depositing it on land through snowfall and rainfall, before ultimately returning it to the oceans via vast river networks. An amazing fact of the water cycle is how much water for the cycle is stored in the ocean phase, 96.5%, leaving a small amount available for deposition and runoff (United States Geological Survey, 2014).

Climate change affects many factors associated with drought. Beyond direct economic impacts, a drought can threaten drinkable water supplies and entire ecosystems, and can even add to increased food prices.

* Students have been studying the water cycle as a part of a unit about the Earth’s water. These following activities are for independent practices for students to show their understanding of the water cycle. These activities are to be used after instruction has been taught and is used for independent practice.

Water is continuously moving through, around, and above the Earth as ice, liquid water, and water vapor depending on the cycle, elevation, and surrounding elements. Three contributing factors are: Accounting-Where things are, Controls-What factors

While reading chapter 17 I read and was interested about water. The earth is covered with mostly water, compared to actual land. To be exact 71 percent of the earth is water where as the land mass is 29 percent. While reading the chapter a topic that caught my attention was where it talked about the water cycles. I think this would be an important factor the the water system/or to write about because without the water cycles we probably wouldn't have any water. One example of a cycle would be the hydrologic cycle this is where water runs off into the oceans, lakes, or rivers, whether it be above ground in rivers, or streams or underneath the ground. Another example is precipitation which most people know as snow, rain, sleet, hail. Precipitation

On May 11th we followed a water molecule through the water cycle. We first picked a place I picked the mountains and we rolled the dice and it would tell us where to go next. The activity we did was very different than the regular diagram of the water cycle diagram. For my molecule evaporation happened I kept going back up to the clouds.

HYDROLOGIC CYCLE The hydrologic cycle is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration. As the water vapor rises it condenses to form clouds that return water to the land through precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. Precipitation falls on the earth and either percolates into the soil or flows across the ground. Usually it does both. When precipitation percolates into the soil it is called infiltration when it flows across the ground it is called surface run off. The amount of precipitation that infiltrates, versus the

From the time the earth was formed, water have been endlessly circulating. This circulation is known as the hydrologic cycle. Groundwater is part of this continuous

As discusses above, drought causes the shortage of plants and animals, which provide food for human beings. Therefore, the shortage of food causes problems for living.