The Water Cycle

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 Key vocabulary
• Evaporation •Deposition

• Transpiration • Infiltration

• Sublimation • Percolation

• Condensation • Groundwater Flow

•Surface Flow
• Transportation
• Plant Uptake
• Precipitation
• Snowmelt Runoff
 A Question
◦ What happens when you leave a glass of water out for ten days?
 Evaporation
• Evaporation

• Water -> water vapour

 A Question
◦ What happens to the outside of that glass?
 Condensation
• Condensation

• Water vapour -> Water

 The Water Cycle
• Big bodies of water on Earth evaporate, too

• What about condensation?

 The Water Cycle
• In the atmosphere, water vapour cools down into liquid
• This forms clouds
 The Water Cycle
• What do clouds do?
 The Water Cycle
• They rain on you!
• Precipitation
 The Water Cycle
• This is a big part of the water cycle
 A Question
• What happens to clouds, when you watch them?
 A Question
• They move!
 A Question
• Transportation - Movement of water through the atmosphere,
specifically from over the oceans to over land.
 A Question
• Transportation - Movement of water through the atmosphere,
specifically from over the oceans to over land.
 A Question
• Transportation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAn7CcbC-M
 Water Cycle
We can add more to our water
cycle now…
 Water in the atmosphere
Not only from evaporation

Where else does it come from?

 Water in the atmosphere
• Plants!
• What do we call this?
 Transpiration
• Transpiration
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeOw-wJR9fc
 Transpiration
• Transpiration – Plants give lose water vapour through pores in their leaves
 Transpiration
• Transpiration – Plants give lose water vapour through pores in their leaves
 Water Vapour in Air
• Transpiration and Evaporation contribute
• What else contributes?
 Water Vapour in Air
• Mountains!
• Let’s look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_p9LOTUIDQ
 Water Vapour in Air
• The solid ice turns into a gas without becoming a liquid
• What do we call this process?
 Water Vapour in Air
• Sublimation - When the surface layer of snow or ice turns into fog
or steam without melting
 Water Vapour in Air
• Sublimation – Let’s look at a lab example
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcaawA7d0ro
 Water Vapour in Air
• The water cycle is starting to form….
 Mountains
How does that ice get there?
 Mountains
Hint: The opposite of sublimation
 Mountains
Deposition - where water vapor in the atmosphere changes directly
into ice
 Mountains
What happens to all that ice on a mountain?
 Mountains
It Melts!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmRDE1Dqzok
 Snow
Snowmelt runoff – Runoff produced by melting snow (into lakes etc)
 Surface Runoff
Surface flow – flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater,
meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.
 Surface Runoff
• Surface flow
• Let’s Look: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=surface+flow+water
 Surface Runoff
• What happens to all that water?
 Surface Runoff
• Streams
• Lakes
• Evaporation
• And other stuff….
 Surface Runoff
Where does this water go?
 Surface Runoff
In Bangkok, it stays there longer!

Why?
 Surface Runoff
Concrete!

No porous soil and rock

 Into the Soil
Infiltration and Percolation – Water seeps into the soil and becomes
groundwater
 Into the Soil
Infiltration - At the surface (soil)
Percolation – Deeper (bedrock)
 Into the Soil
Creates a groundwater flow
 Groundwater Flow
Creates a groundwater flow
 Groundwater
What happens to all this groundwater?
 Plant Uptake
Plant Uptake - When the water from the soil is taken by the roots
of plants and used to make the plant grow
 Plant Uptake
Plant Uptake - This links to transpiration. The water cycle is
forming…
 Groundwater
Groundwater flow – also flows back into other bodies of water
Describe/Explain three factors that disadvantage the water cycle (6 marks)