The water cycle can have effects on Earth materials and surface processes. Causing things like flooding, erosion, and deposition. The water cycle includes evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and infiltration. Evaporation is when the sun heats up any type of water and changes it into water vapor where it is evaporated up into the atmosphere. Transpiration is just water vapor be evaporated off of plants. The water vapor that was evaporated into the sky condenses and the temperature difference causing clouds to be made. Then the water vapor is turned back into liquid form, which is called Condensation. Once the clouds get to heavy to hold any more of the liquid substances, precipitation will occur. which could either be rain, snow, sleet, or hail. After precipitation falls to the earth, surface run off could be collected into groundwater or into bodies of water. Later as everything is drying out the water would be absorbed into the ground or evaporated to where the water cycle would start over again. Because of the Water Cycle, over time it can cause naturally occurring flooding erosion and deposition. Erosion takes years and years to make noticeable changes to the earth. But what it does is break down dirt, rocks, soil, and mineral particles and transport them to new locations or transform them into new things. Deposition is just the transporting of rock and sediment particles down stream to a new location. and Flooding is caused from too much precipitation of rain over time and the earth can absorb any more into the ground. It starts backing up water drains and pudding everywhere until it starts pooling in big areas. All of these naturally occurring process only would happen because of the water cycle. Because of our water cycle, our earth is still alive to this day.
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- "Weathering, Erosion, Deposition (WED)." Weathering, Erosion, Deposition, and Landforms. Rengents Exam Prep Center, n.d. Web. 23 May 2014. <http://www.tutorialsolutions.com/esWEDNotes
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