The hydrological cycle

Aim

To know the different components of the water cycle.

Skill: To annotate a diagram of the water cycle.

Starter

What is meant by a landform?

A shape in the landscape produced by the

action of water, wind or ice.

Give an example of a landform produced

by a river and one produced by the sea.

Water, Landforms and People

• Hydrological cycle – droughts and floods

• Coasts – processes and landforms

• Rivers – processes and landforms

• Managing rivers and coasts

The hydrosphere is the liquid water component of the Earth. It includes the oceans, seas, lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. The hydrosphere covers about 70% of the surface of the Earth.

Answers

ground water

Plants

Animals

Soil

and air

The Water Cycle

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5

Land

Sea

How the water cycle operates12345 The water flows off the land back to the sea

because of gravity.

Explain what is happening at each stage. No. 5 has been done for you.

You should include the following words at least once:precipitation, evaporation, condensation, atmosphere

The water cycle – a closed system

There is the same quantity of water on the

Earth today as there was when it was

formed. It is either being stored or

transferred.

Suggest two stores and two flows in the

diagram you drew.

The Water Cycle

LandSea

Air

Precipitation Transpiration

Condensation

Evaporation Surf ace Runoff I nfi ltration Through Flow

Groundwater flowI nterception

Glossary

• For each of the new terms that you have learnt today write its definition in your glossary at the back of your book.