💧Water Cycle🌊
- The Cycle
- 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
- Groundwater
- 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