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By: Mark Attalla Amber Watts Osvaldo Mendoza • Water is stored in ice and snow, with a small percentage of it being frozen. • Sometimes days, sometimes thousands of years. • When cloud particles become too heavy to remain suspended in the air, they fall to the earth as precipitation. • Snowmelt runoff is a major component in the water cycle. • Infiltration is when the water enters into the subsurface of soil and rocks • As part of the water cycle, ground water is a major contributor to flow in many streams and rivers and has a strong influence on river and wetland habitats for plants and animals. • Most of the water in the ground comes from precipitation that infiltrates downward from the land surface • Large amounts of water are stored in the ground. • Evaporation is the process by which water is converted from its liquid form to its vapor form • This is the primary pathway that water moves from the liquid state back into the water cycle. • The water in the oceans is saltwater, it contains significant amounts of dissolved salts • 96.5% of the worlds water comes from the ocean • Condensation is the change of water from its gaseous form (water vapor) into liquid water. • This is crucial because it is responsible for the formation of clouds. • There is always water in the atmosphere. Clouds are, of course, the most visible manifestation of atmospheric water, but even clear air contains water- in particles that are too small to be seen. • Evapotranspiration is the water lost to the atmosphere from the ground surface. • The transpiration part is talking about evaporation of water from plant leaves. • Sublimation is when a solid changes directly into a gas • It is most often used to describe the process of snow and ice changing into water vapor in the air without first melting into water. • Oceans, seas, and other bodies of water contain about 90% of the moisture in the atmosphere. • Other 10%=plants, transpiration. • 3,100 cubic miles of water. • Includes all water on earth. • 1.35 million cubic kilometers of water on earth. • Not a single drop of water can be found anywhere else in the solar system. • The solid part of earth. • Is composed of minerals and contains the groundwater. • Is all living organisms. • Covers the top 200 meters of oceans and seas. • • • • • • http://techalive.mtu.edu/meec/module01/EvaporationandTranspiration.htm http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleevapotranspiration.html http://geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/fourspheres.htm http://www.deafhoosiers.com/sci/soarhigh/lithosphere/lithosphereComp.html http://www.nps.gov/archive/acad/flow/atmosphere.html http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleatmosphere.html