Introduction
On this website you will learn about the Water Cycle, the Rio Grande River, Water Pollution, and Water Conservation. You will see glogs made by us on lots of different things. We have youtube video's, quiz's, and games to help you learn about the things we're teaching you. Make sure and watch the videos and take the quiz's to help you learn. Also read ALL the information we have so you can know what your learning about, and so you can learn.
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The Water Cycle
So we have the ocean right, well when the sun beats on the water it rises and it is called evaporation. Also when the water from the vegetation rises it is called transpiration. Next when the water vapor rises high enough it turns into clouds and that is called condensation. Then when the water moves through the sky it comes to the point where it rains, snows, or hails and that is called precipitation. After that it will go off the mountain that is called run off. Last some of the water will soak into the ground and that is called ground water. Now it will start all over again.
Did You Know:
There is only 2% of FRESH water in the whole world!!!!!!!
There is only 2% of FRESH water in the whole world!!!!!!!
Where We Get Our Water From
Albuquerque gets its water from the aquifer, the Rio Grande, and we will get our water from the San Juan-Chama river diversion project soon.
CLOUDS
There are 11 types of clouds.There's 4 that we usually see, CIRRUS, STRATUS, CUMULUS, and CUMULONIMBUS.Cirrus looks like a feather in the sky, and can go up as high as 20,000 feet or above.Stratus is a long, low, and flat kind of cloud, and the stratus can be as low as below 6,000 feet.
http://www.riverwatershed.org/uploads/watershed.jpg
Water Sheds
A water shed is when water that is stored at the top of a mountain or something high and then it runs down into a big body of water collecting pollution as it goes.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/atmos/images/hydro.jpg
http://www.conferenceboard.ca/files/hcp/environment/env_wateruse_ch1.png
http://www.obwb.ca/wsd/key-findings/water-use