💧Water Cycle🌊

  1. The Cycle
  1. Hydrosphere

Clean water

Earth's Circulatory System of Water

All living things depend on it

Important part of the ecosystem

Evaporation

Liquid to Gas

Gaseous water

Condensation

Clouds

Collected water molecules

Gets big enough to drop

Fall as Rain/Snow/Sleet/Hail

Repeat

Fixed amount of water

Pumped around hydrosphere by sun

Sun's heat energy

Break bonds between water molecules

Evaporation

  1. Groundwater
  1. Balanced Hydrosphere

Precipitation

Snow

Sleet

Rain

Hail

Infiltration

Few days to thousands of years

Supplies water for drinking, farming, etc.

Stay beneath the surface

Feeds wetlands, lakes, and streams

The amount never changes

Constantly moving

Fixed amount of water circulates

Evaporation from the ocean

Makes up the same amount

Stays perfectly balanced

From

Rivers

Reservoirs

Precipitation

Storage places

Groundwater