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Lab 7: The Ecosystem Drawing The water cycle is driven by the sun’s energy. The sun heats the water and some of it evaporates into the air. Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere, along with water from transpiration, which is water transpired from plants. The vapor rises into the air where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Nutrients cycle through the environment, but energy has a one way flow and is lost as heat. Most precipitation falls back into the oceans or onto land, where, due to gravity, the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers which move water towards the oceans. Runoff, and ground-water seepage, accumulate and are stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers, though. Much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes aquifers (saturated subsurface rock), which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time. Over 96% of the world’s total water supply is salt water. Of the total freshwater, 68% is locked up in ice and glaciers. Another 30% of freshwater is in the ground. Fresh surface-water sources, such as rivers and lakes, only constitute about 1/150 of one percent of total water. Yet, rivers and lakes are the sources of most of the water people use everyday. email us glossary 7.2
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