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Hydrologic Cycle
http://www.purdue.edu/dp/envirosoft/groundwater/src/cycle.htm
This site explains key concepts and components of the hydrologic cycle including: evapotranspiration, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, percolation and runoff. The impact of human activities and structures on the water cycle are discussed, including the effects of growing water use and urbanization.
Lehigh Valley Water Suppliers, Inc.:
Discover the Water Cycle!
http://lvwater.org/index.cfm?pag=108
This interactive tour of the water cycle allows students to follow a water molecule from a home's plumbing system as it follows different routes through the hydrologic cycle. Students learn about how water is used, treated, and returned to the natural environment where it can cycle through liquid, solid, and gas phases.
National Weather Service
http://www.nwrfc.noaa.gov/info/water_cycle/hydrology.cgi
Explanation of the water cycle.
Teachers' Domain: WGBH Educational Foundation
Water Cycle Animation
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/ess05.sci.ess.watcyc.watercycle/
The water cycle is Earth's natural mechanism for transporting and recycling water between the surface and the atmosphere. Through the processes of condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, transpiration, and evaporation, water continuously travels from the atmosphere to the ground and back again. In this animation from NASA, users can observe the steps of the water cycle.
Missouri Botanical Garden
The Evergreen Project: The Water Cycle
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/
This site provides information about precipitation, evaporation, condensation, surface runoff, infiltration and transpiration, which are all part of the water cycle, a complex process that not only gives us water to drink and fish to eat, but also weather patterns that help grow our crops. The site has four sections. The introduction presents the overall concept while the second section covers each of the six parts of the cycle in detail. In the third part, The Cycle, the dynamic process is stressed and a diagram is included. Cloud Formation is the final section and it covers factors that control the size and shape of clouds such as heat, seasons, mountain ranges, bodies of water, volcanic eruptions, and even global warming. In addition, cloud nomenclature is discussed with an explanation of the advent of such cloud names as cumulonimbus, nimbostratus, cirrocumulus, and altostratus.
USGS (United States Geological Survey)
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html
This interactive diagram of the water cycle invites students to click on a part of the cycle to get information about streamflow, surface runoff, freshwater storage, ground-water discharge, ground-water storage, infiltration, precipitation, snowmelt, runoff to streams, springs, condensation, evaporation, transpiration, water in the atmosphere, ice and snow, and oceans.
USGS (United States Geological Survey)
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleinfiltration.html
This site provides a discussion of the downward movement, or infiltration, of water from the surface into soil or porous rock. Graphics illustrate the processes affecting infiltration, including precipitation, soil characteristics and saturation, land cover, slope, and evapotranspiration. Links to additional sources of information are also provided.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
This is a water cycle animation.
Water
http://www.leonardodicaprio.org/files/videos/waterplanet.html?q=whatsimportant/w ...
This movie, narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, provides a brief overview of the water cycle and discusses the distribution of water on Earth's surface and threats to the supply such as pollution, climate change, and political conflicts. It also presents some suggestions for solving these problems, such as conservation and intervention of government to protect supplies.
Water Cycle
http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/watercycle/
Animated diagram with a link to a quiz.
Windows to the Universe
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/water_cycle.html