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Water Cycle Movie

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Water Cycle Movie Credits

Animation by Mark Malanoski, NASA GSFC Visualization Laboratory

Directed by Paul Houser, NASA GSFC Code 974

Consultant Debbie Belvedere, GEST/UMBC

Scientific Consultant: C. Adam Schlosser, GEST/UMBC

Water enters the ground by what process?

Permutation ?

Sublimation ?

Transpiration ?

Infiltration ?

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Besides Glaciers where is the rest of the worlds fresh water?

Credit U.S. Geological Survey/General Interest Publication "Ground Water"

Water enters the pores in the gravel. The water can flow in many different directions through the gravel.

The water finds open pores and fills them.

The water fills most but not all of the pores in the gravel.

Water enters the channels in the

limestone.

The water can flow in many different

directions in the limestone.

The water can move faster through the

large channels in the limestone than through

the pores of unconsolidated rock.

The water fills most of the cracks in the

limestone.

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FLAP

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Farmer

Lighthouse

Chesapeake County Groundwater Problem

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Homeowner A

Texaco Gas Station

Madison County Groundwater Problem

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Radius

#5

Capillary Fringe slopes downward here.

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