The Water Cycle

Sun

Precipitation

Condensation

Evaporation

Rivers

Lake

By: Aleksander Rivera, Isabelle González, Fiorella Nadalini and Santiago Escobar
 What is the water cycle?

The water cycle is the movement of water in

different stages on the Earth and atmosphere.
 Process

The water cycle process is easy to complete.

The 3 processes of the cycle are: Liquid water
evaporates into water vapor, then condenses
to form clouds and finally and precipitates
back to earth in the form of rain and snow.
 Evaporation The Condensation

It transforms the liquid water It changes de water vapor

into water vapor, this ocurrs
when heat forces the things
that hold the molecules
together and it breaks it. This
cycle is important because it
moves the water throught
the Earth and the
atmosphere.
into liquid water. The state
of matter that is gaseous
but becomes liquid thanks
to the fact that gaseous is a
gas that contains micro
particles of water which
can provide hydration to
different areas of the
planet thanks to
condensation.

Precipitation
Any form of hydrometeor that falls from the atmosphere and
reaches the Earth's surface.
How many time takes to complete
the water cycle?
The seas and oceans takes 4,000 years.
For lakes and reservoirs takes 10 years,
and for swamps take 10 years.
Residence time in soil moisture is two
weeks to one year, in river two weeks
and in the atmosphere, it is 1.5 weeks.
The most time is in the place Antarctica,
with 20,000 years.
The water cycle has no beginning
or end, since water is constantly
changing. The process may be a
little long to complete. Each
water location contains different
process completion times.
Function of water cycle in
ecosystem.
This is a water cycle, which transports different
types of water such as salt or fresh, but the
most essential thing about this is that water
only flows through the atmosphere and through
the land spreading water all over the world.
But the function of the water cycle in an
ecosystem is that water flows through different
types of areas and is transformed according to
the ecosystem, but something essential is that
it spreads nutrients and maintains humidity and
regulates the climate.
 How affects the water
cycle in the humans?
The humans are the firs reasons of the climate
change and this also affects the water cycle.
One example is the intensification of heavy
precipitation, this affects the availability of
freshwater resources, like oceans or land
surface. Also are changes in land use and land
cover alter the water cycle regionally and
locally, by changing precipitation, evaporation,
flooding, groundwater, and the availability of
freshwater for other uses.
 What alters the water cycle?

Temperature affects the water cycle in many

ways, delaying it or altering it in a way that the
cycle cannot be completed. What affects the
most is the very hot temperature, the water
evaporates very quickly and produces abundant
steam and the cycle cannot be completed in the
best way.