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    The document summarizes the key components of the water cycle and explains their importance to the water supply. It outlines the main stages as evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, runoff, infiltration, and subsurface flow. It then states that the water cycle is extremely important to the water supply because it recycles and distributes fresh water across the earth's surface, preventing us from running out of the clean water that is essential for all life.

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    Christian Joseph G.

    Ascura September 08, 2020


    BSCE-V
    CE 53 ASSIGNMENT
    As part of the review from your previous subject;

    1. Explain each component of the water cycle.

    2. How important is our water cycle to our water supply?

    ANSWERS:

    1. WATER CYCLE COMPONENTS:

     Evaporation - The sun heats up the lakes, rivers, oceans, swamps and other
    bodies of water which subsequently increase the temperature of the water present
    in them. Some water evaporates as vapor into the air. The rising air currents take
    the vapor up in the sky.
     Transpiration - The process where plants and trees absorb water through the
    roots and then lose water to the atmosphere in the form of vapor which rises up in
    the sky through pores in their leaves.
     Condensation - As the vapors rise high, the cooler temperatures make them cool
    down and turn back into liquid.  Winds move the moisture around, leading to the
    formation of clouds.
     Precipitation - Wind movements cause the cloud particles to collide. As they
    become full of water, they develop into rain bearing clouds and fall back onto the
    earth’s surface. This may occur in the form of rain, hail, snow or sleet depending
    upon temperature conditions.
     Runoff - After the water has fallen and the soil has become saturated, or the snow
    has melted, the water follows gravity and falls down any hills, mountains, or other
    inclines to form or join rivers. This process is known as ‘runoff,’ and it is how
    water comes to rest in lakes and returns to the ocean. 
     Infiltration - occurs when surface water enters the soil; The amount of water that
    infiltrates the soil varies with the land slope, the amount of vegetation, soil type
    and rock type.
     Subsurface Flow - The flow of water at a shallow depth beneath the ground
    surface. The subsurface flow can re-emerge at the surface at or near the base of
    hill-slopes.
    2. All living organisms require water and the water cycle describes the process of
    how water moves through the planet. The Water Cycle brings fresh water to
    people, animals and plants. It is extremely important to our Water Supply because
    if water didn’t naturally recycle itself and distribute freshwater all over the earth’s
    surface, we would run out of clean water, which is essential to life and survival.

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