Sunday, November 1, 2009

The water cycle



Evaporation
In this picture, you can see that the sun is heating the water in the ocean, river or sea which causes the liquid to absorb the heat and go to the clouds. When that happens it turns steamy. The wind is also helping it, by blowing the water when it reaches the clouds. Later on it will turn into rain droplets and start all over again alonside the other parts of the water cycle.








Condensation
The picture on the left is when water vapour starts to evaporate and become clouds. Because it evaporates, it creates dew points.















Precipatation
This picture clearly shows precipitation is when any form of water; snow, freezing rain, hail, rain or more hits anywere on earth. If it hits water, after that it's evaporation. If it hits ground, it's infiltration.











Infiltration

This picture is when any form of water falls on the ground and seeps through. It then becomes ground water. When water precipitates, it can go two ways. It can infiltrate or run- off. Run-off is when any form of water reaches the ground and well.. runs off the ground and falls in the ocean or any body of water.






1 comment:

Michael said...

Nice work here, Faqeera. I just wonder about the condensation in the water cycle. How does the glass show this compared to a cloud?

Any chance of getting all the space out of the bottom of this post?