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Water Systems. The Water Cycle, Streams, and Ground Water. Earth’s Water Supply. Water Cycle. movement of water between the atmosphere, the land, and the oceans. Evaporation. Water changing from liquid phase to a gaseous phase( water vapor) without boiling. Surface 2/3 Water - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Water Systems
The Water Cycle, Streams, and Ground Water
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Earth’s Water Supply
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Water Cycle• movement of water between the atmosphere, the land,
and the oceans.
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Evaporation
• Water changing from liquid phase to a gaseous phase(water vapor) without boiling.
• Surface 2/3 Water• 500,000 km3 /year• Evapotranspiration – evaporation from plant
leaves.
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Condensation• change of state from a gas to a liquid• When water vapor rises in the atmosphere, it
expands and cools.• As the vapor becomes cooler; some of it
condenses back to liquid• High – Clouds• Low – Fog• Surface - Dew
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Precipitation• Any form of water that falls to Earth’s surface (rain,
snow, sleet, and hail)
• Most precipitation falls on Earth’s oceans.
• The rest falls on land and becomes runoff or infiltrates the soil to become groundwater.
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Runoff
• Rain that falls to the ground and is not absorbed
• Moves along the surface of the land until it flows into a stream system
• Causes erosion.
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Factors Affecting Runoff
Rate of rain Runoff
Slope Runoff
Buildings Runoff
Plants Runoff
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River Systems• watershed (AKA basin) the area of land that is
drained by a river system
• The ridges or elevated regions that separate watersheds are called divides.
• tributaries streams that flows into a lake or into a larger stream
• A river system is made up of a main stream and tributaries.
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Mississippi River Basin
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MooseheadLake
WatershedContains:• 31 lakes• 549 m2 of land •400 miles of rivers and streams•empties out into the Atlantic Ocean
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River Systems• Channel - Depression that a stream follows as it
flows downhill
• Banks - The edges of a stream channel that are above water level
• Bed - The part of the stream channel that is below the water level
• A stream channel gradually becomes wider and deeper as it erodes its banks and bed.
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River Systemsstream load - Sediment carried by a stream
• Stream load takes three forms– suspended load
– bed load
– dissolved load
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Stream Load
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River SystemsStream gradient the change in elevation over a given
distance• Near the headwaters, or the beginning of a stream,
the gradient generally is steep.
• As the stream nears its mouth, its gradient often becomes flatter.
• The characteristics of streams with different gradients are very different
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Gradient
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River Systems• River systems change continuously because of
erosion.• Depending on the slope of the land, streams
have three stages of development. Young, Mature, and Old
• These differing streams support different types of organisms
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Young Streams
• Flow swiftly through a steep valley.• Lots of whitewater and waterfalls because
they have not yet eroded all the material in their way.
• Young streams erode most on the bottom and less on the sides.
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Qualities
• Fast Moving• High oxygen• Cold• Little Nutrients
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Stream Merging
• Many young streams join together to form larger streams.
• Depending on the slope of the land and the amount of water they will form either mature or old streams
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Mature and Old Streams
• Mature and Old Streams flow through floodplains.
• floodplain an area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks
• Occurs when water levels increase depending on the amount of rainfall and snowmelt in the watershed.
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Floodplains
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Mature Streams
• Curving streams that flow down a gradual slope
• Erode more on their sides than on the bottom.
• This leads to the creation of meanders (curves in a stream)
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Qualities
• Lots of sediment/nutrients – Erosion from young streams
• Slow moving– Algae can grow
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Evolution of Mature Streams
meander• When a river rounds a bend, the velocity of the
water on the outside of the curve increases. – Increase erosion
• On the inside of the curve, the velocity of the water decreases. – Increased deposition
• Causes curves to widen
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Stream Flow
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HorseshoeBend
of the Colorado River near Page, AZ
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Oxbow Lakes
• The curve enlarges while further erosion takes place on the opposite bank, where the water is moving more quickly.
• Meanders can become so curved that they almost form a loop, separated by only a narrow neck of land
• This can eventually become separated into an oxbow lake
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Old Streams
• Old streams flow very slowly through a broad flat floodplain.
• Usually they have lost their meanders and flow more straightly.
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Deltas and Alluvial Fans• Fan-shaped masses of sediment deposited as a
stream slows
• Deltas occur where streams meet oceans
• Alluvial fans result where streams loose energy as the slope decreases rapidly.
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Groundwater
• Water that absorbs into the ground and is located in the spaces between sediments (pores)
• These pores are connected and allow water to flow through them.
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Permeability
• Ability of a material(rock/sediment) to allow water to flow through it.
• Permeable rock/sediment layers allow water to pass through easily
• Impermeable rock/sediment layers resist the flow of water.
• Depends on size and shape of sediment
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Zone of Saturation
• Ground water fills the pores in the permeable rock/sediment layer creating an aquifer.
• The area of the soil where all of the pores have completely filled with water is referred to as the zone of saturation.
• The upper limit of this zone is called the water table.
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Wells
• Holes that are dug below the water table.
• Water has been filtered by sediment.
• If water table drops (drought) it can dry up the well.
• Too many wells in one area can also lower the water table
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Artesian Wells
• Special kind of well where water is pushed up to the surface naturally.
• Require a special kind of geography where an aquifer is sandwiched between impermeable layers and the layers change in elevation.
• Gravity creates pressure that forces water up artesian wells.
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Springs• Springs can exist where the groundwater
reaches the surface
• Some times cracks allow natural artesian wells to form.
• Freshwater springs exist along coasts where fresh ground water enters the ocean.
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Hot Springs and Geysers
• Occur where groundwater is stored near hot rocks
• Hot springs - near boiling water leaks up to the surface.
• Geysers - boiling water and steam is periodically released causing a stream of hot water to shoot out of the ground.
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Caves and Sinkholes
• Form as carbonic acid dissolves limestone.
• Caves are structurally stable and do no collapse.
• If soil above a cave is weak and it collapses into a sinkhole.
• People pumping water out can turn caves into sink holes
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Stalactites and Stalagmites
• Little CO2 in caves, carbonic acid breaks down, can’t hold dissolved limestone.
• Limestone accumulates as water drips
• Stalactite - ceiling of the cave • Stalagmite - ground of the cave
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Adaptations
• Animals must have special adaptations to deal with living in a cave
• Dark• No plants• Wet• Dangerous Chemicals