The water Cycle
Learn about the water cycle A.K.A "The hydrolodgic cycle."
The water cycle
The water cycle is an interesting but complicated subject. Lets start off with evaporation. Evaporation has two ways regular evaporation or transpiration which is evaporation through plants.During evaporation the water gets heated up and rises in the air. when the water is in the air the it grabs a piece of dust. After evaporation, the cold atmosphere condenses the vapour into clouds. now either two things happen. one the cloud fills and then precipitates or the water droplets get blown up by the wind into the colder atmosphere. Then the water becomes ice flakes which fall as snow or become ice blocks which fall as hail. Now the water will become a runoff and go to lakes. Also it may seep into the ground and become ground water. Now the final step the water will accumulate that means the water gathers into lakes and streams. So basically that is the water cycle.
The Water Cycle
This is the Whole water cycle Altougether .
Evapouration
This is the first step of the water cycle. Evaporation is when the temperature goes up and the water turns to vapour
and the water vapour catches a piece of dust and floats up into the sky.
Condensation
Now the next step. So during condensation the water vapour which now is in the sky condenses. That means the vapor turns back to water which forms clouds.
Precipitation
When the water vapour condenses to much the clouds fill with water and eventually let it out in small drops. Also when snow falls the water is actually blown up higher by the wind and then bump into each other to make big drops and since the water is higher it freezes into hail or an ice flake which falls as snow.
RunOff
Now this part is not very familiar but runoff's is when water falls and flows into streams or lakes.
Accumulation
Once again this is not familiar but is very known. Accumulation is when the water gathers in lakes, rivers, streams, E.C.T.
Pollutants
Pollutants
Now since you know about the water cycle let's talk about pollutants. As you know the water cycle is a fragile thing but it is interrupted about a thousand times a day. Pollutants can enter the water cycle all the time. There are millions of contaminants but we will only talk about one. The one we will talk about is DDT. So DDT is one of the most popular pesticides. DDT is so popular because it kills worms bugs caterpillars and other insects that kill crops. Even though this is very effective it will leak off into streams, rivers and lakes. Since birds drink lake water the DDT will cause them to lay eggs with thin shells. Then the baby birds will hatch to early and die. That is why they banned it in 1972. To learn more about DDT ho to the link below.