Meander Through flow Discharge Source Mouth Tributary Confluence BankOverland flow
Rivers: The water cycle Aims: To become familiar with the water cycle as a system To be able to use the words: PRECIPITATION, CONDENSATION and EVAPORATION Skills: Labelling diagrams
A System? INPUTS PROCESSES OUTPUTS Closed system – where inputs and outputs remain in the system. Nothing outside the system can contribute to it. Open System – where inputs and outputs come from outside the system. Things outside the system can contribute to it.
Evaporation Condensation Precipitation Rivers Base Flow Through Flow Transpiration
The water cycle
The drainage basin
river evapotranspiration precipitation throughflow surface runoff groundwater flow water table interception percolation infiltration The drainage basin
Drainage basin system inputsstores and flowsoutputs precipitationinterception surface runoff surface water storage soil water storage groundwater storage infiltration river runoff evaporation transpiration groundwater flow throughflow percolation
The Adventures of Drippy- A Water Droplet Story
Catching the Evaporation liftGetting colder and condensationGripping onto a dust particle PrecipitatingInto a riverBack to the Sea
Starting to evaporateCondensationPrecipitation Infiltrating the ground with lots of other droplets Percolating into the water tableEntering the river via the water table In the riverAt the river mouthStarting to evaporate journey
HW: Complete Water Cycle Sheet
Meander Through flow Discharge Source Mouth Tributary Confluence BankOverland flow