Name: ____________________________ Water Cycle and Carbon Cycle Notes
Using the web link below define the following processes of the water cycle.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercyclesummarytext.html
Condensation:
Precipitation:
Surface Runoff:
Infiltration:
Evaporation:
Transpiration:
Use this link http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/watercycle/ to find an animation
about the water cycle. In your group, create a diagram of the water cycle below. You
diagram must include the following:
All the components of the water cycle from above
Drawings to represent each phase of the water cycle
Using the web link below answer the following questions of the Carbon-Oxygen cycle.
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/images/fa/soil-Cycle.jpg
What are the three ways that carbon dioxide (CO2) is created?
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Through what process does CO2 get converted to something else? (look at the tree)
What does CO2 get converted to? (2 things…only one is on the diagram…the other you have to
guess from what you have learned before!)
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Please draw your own version of the C-O cycle below. (Include these words Decomposition,
Combustion, Photosynthesis, Respiration) You can use http://dictionary.reference.com/
To help you find what these terms are if you don’t know already…