Human Impact on water cycle

Human Impact on water cycle

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Learning Goal

• To understand the different ways humans impact the water cycle

Success Criteria

• I can list 3 ways humans impact the water cycle, and explain how.

Recap - Water Cycle

Multiple Choice

Snow, sleet, hail, and rain are all examples of  ________________. 

• evaporation
• condensation
• accumulation
• precipitation

Draw

Draw condensation

Draw

Draw Evaporation

Draw

Label the below image

Multiple Choice

what does the #4 show in the diagram?

• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation
• run off

Multiple Choice

Which stage does ground water try to return to the ocean or soak into the ground?

• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation
• run off

Let's Begin!

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Open Ended

Explain how you think deforestation could negatively impact the water cycle.

Deforestation

• Is the process of cutting down trees

• Deforestation impacts the water cycle in a negative way.

• Due to there being less tree's, there is less transpiration.

• Less transpiration results in less evaporation, meaning less rainfall in the effected areas.

Multiple Choice

One big reason deforestation is awful for the planet is...

• less transpiration, which means less rain

• more transpiration, which means more rain

Agriculture

• Impact surface water by contributing pesticides, sediment and bacteria into the water cycle.

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Greenhouse Gas

• Is the warming of the Earth through carbon emissions

• Effects water cycle, as higher air temperatures results in increased evaporation.

• This can lead into things such as intense rainstorms.

Multiple Choice

The greenhouse effect...

• helps plants grow

• cools down the planet

• warms up the planet

• kills animals through reflection of sunlight

Open Ended

List all the ways humans impact the water cycle in the picture.