Notes: Water cycle

Welcome!
Please read the board.
How do you know???
Quiz time – reading a
watershed map!
When you are finished, bring your
quiz to Ms. Klein in the back of
the room.
Recharge zones refill the
aquifers!
What does a spring look like?
Blanco, Texas
Other springs
Why is the ocean salty?
Water cycles, but freshwater
is a limited resources
• 97% is salt water
• 2% locked in ice caps and glaciers
• Rest is found in ground water, soil
moisture, and the atmosphere
Of all the water on the
planet, less than 1% is
available for our use!
Left side analysis: How are
people changing the water cycle?
• Putting in more
dams
• Paving parking lots
and streets
• Estuaries
• aquifers