1. the natural water cycle
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1. The Natural Water CycleTRANSCRIPT
Physical Geography Natural and Urban Water Cycles and Papplewick
Pumping Station 1. The Natural Water Cycle Suggestion: Put the
following sequence of natural images on a slideshow and run it
alongside a water cycle poster IT Suggestion: Get your pupils to
take photos of different kinds of weather and phenomena that help
to illustrate the natural water cycle, and add the images to the
above slides or use an IT session to source more images on the web
Literacy Suggestion: Use the images to stimulate vocabulary for
poetry mood and emotion, or prose settings and openers (And relate
the work on metaphor in the I am Water activity in the English
section) 2. The Urban Water Cycle http://sustwatermgmt. wikia
http://www. blueplanet. nsw. edu
3. Papplewick Pumping Station and the geology of Bunter Sandstone
Robin Macey An aerial view of the pumping station taken from a hot
air balloon. Papplewick is situated over Bunter / Sherwood
sandstone, which acts like a giant sponge, soaking up, storing and
naturally filtering impurities from the water. This sedimentary
rock is over 200 million years old and extends over a vast area.
Diagram illustrating the water cycle and function of Papplewick
Pumping Station.
The pumping stationwas designed to pull water from the ground, pump
it uphill into the reservoir, and then feed it into the public
water supply. Twenty percent of this rock is made up of holes into
which rainwater trickles and is stored. When water is removed, for
example from a well sunk into the stone, then more water percolates
down to replace it. As the water trickles through the stone, most
of its impurities are removed. Sandstone Examples of where you can
see sandstone in Nottingham The sandstone caves in the hill the
castle stands on in Nottingham The Park Tunnel was built in 1855
through the sandstone so that horse drawn carriages could go
directly to the Park from Derby Road in Nottingham. Whats our
relationship to the water cycles
Whats our relationship to the water cycles?... Today, on average,
each person in Nottinghamshire uses about 127 litres of water a
day. Our grandparents used just 18 litres. On average, a Kenyan
uses just 4 litres a day. A garden sprinkler uses the same amount
of water in 1 hour as a family of 4 uses in 2 days. (Links to
Geography - Human Distribution - Virtual Water)