WaterCycle

WATER CYCLE

Team 2  The reason that the rain forests contribute to the water cycle is that they add water to our atmosphere in the process of transpiration. This is the cycle when Plants release the water from their leaves during photosynthesis. This water contributes to the rain clouds let the water out back onto the trees. About fifty to eighty percent of the water Remains in the ecosystem in the Amazon. When people cut down our forests Less water goes into the formation of rain clouds Which means less rainfall, sometimes this can lead to a drought. Around this time some rainforests have ha very severe droughts that have been made worse because of deforestation. Water that rainforests have put into the atmosphere travels worldwide. Many scientists have found that in Midwest America we are affected by Rainforests in the Congo. While moisture in the Amazon ends up traveling as far as Texas before it becomes rain and falls to the earth. In southeast Asia rain travels as far as Europe and China. So that means that even distant rain forests are important to farmers all over the world. <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175,192,227,0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77,128,180,0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26,26,26,0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; padding-right: 10px;"> [|http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/404.htm]

Team 1 The ocean has 97% of water and 78% occurs on top of the ocean,the sourace of it is 86% of evaporation. The water is the heart of the causes and effect in the climate change. The rainforest's role in the water cycle is adding Water to the atmosphere in the process of transpiration. The water vaper held by the rainforest goes all the way around the world. The latent heat release is a very imporntant part of the earth's heat balance and the couples on the planets energy, and also the water cycle. The water is always moving it has been here for millions of years. The world has 332.5cubic miles of water in the world. Stream flow always changes from minute to minute.



http://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/oceanography/ocean-earth-system/ocean-water-cycle/ http://kids.mongabay.com/elementary/404.html http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

Team 3 The water cycle is not only called the water cycle its also called the hydrologic cycle, water cycle, and h2o cycle. The water goes through a few different phases liquid, solid, and gas. Most of the precipitation is rain. There are 4 main steps for the water cycle. The steps are precipitation, evaporation, condensation, and transpiration, (not in that same order). Plantes lose water during the water cycle. The water cycle is never going to end. The water we drink today is probably the same water dinosours drank hundreds of years ago. The water was naturally recycled by nature. As long as there is precipitation and lakes, water, and other bodies of water, there is a water cycle. The water cycle goes in a circle and it goes nonstop, not fast just never stopping. 93% of the water on earth is toxic to humans and animals. Only 7% of our water is safe for us to drink. When the water falls from the sky, it makes it's way to a body of water, even if it's just a small puddle, and does the whole cycle again. If we did not have the water cycle, all of the water would be dirty and we wouldn't be able to drink the water. If we did and it was dirty, we would be very sick. The water cycle is one of the most important things in the would, if we didn't have it the world would have no life because there would be no water for thing to drink. It is actually very important to try and help the water by using it wisely.



http://library.thinkquest.org/04apr/00222/cycle.htm http://www.all-water.org/Water_Cycle.html http://ellerbruch.nmu.edu/classes/cs255w03/cs255students/mteasley/p4/watercycle.html

Team 4 The H2O cycle (water cycle) describes the non-stop movement of water above, on, and under the crust of the earth. The cycle starts with evaporation. Evaporation occurs when heat causes the water to change from a fluid to a gas (cloud). The clouds then move over ground and eventually will drop the water droplets in it, causing it to rain. The rain will flow in to above ground rivers and underground rivers. That water will either be used by humans, absorbed by trees, or drank by animals. If the water isn't taken for the uses above, then it flows back into the ocean and the cycle begins again. This is important to the ecosystem because when this happens, it's like a natural filter that turns ocean water into freshwater because when the water evaporates, the salt and small ocean life is left behind in the ocean. The underground freshwater rivers can then be tapped into and the water can be filtered more carefully for bacteria and turned into drinking water. Trees absorb this water and use it to sustain themselves, and trees create most of the oxygen in the world. Water is also used to create most of the power in the world through the turbines in dams. Water from one state could be vital to another state miles away, which means water can travel a lot of places before its all used up and the next cycle starts.



http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/info/water_cycle/hydrology.cgi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cycle

Team 5 The water cycle also known as the hydrologic cycle consists of a curtain process of evaporation of evaporation, precipitation, ground water seepage, surface round off and then transpiration. One place were you can find the water cycle is in the Tropical Rainforest because it rain so much and is so wet. In the Rainforest the dry season is consitered a season were there is not very much water on the ground as there usally is. The dry season is when there is not that much rain about 4 inches for more than a mounth or more.The water cycle is important to this biome because it wouldn't be called a Rainforest without rain. Also all the animals that live there would be able to live if there was no water for them to drink and survive on and then die.



http://www.wcupa.edu/aceer/amigos/cd/water_cycle.htm http://www.coexploration.org/howsthewater/html/body_earth.html