How is the Water Cycle important to Plants and Animals?

Question

Some detailed answers please.

Answer 1

Living things need water to survive. The unit of exixtence, the cell is nourished and survives in a medium with water as a major component.
Water exists in large quantity on earth and water bodies cover about 75% of the earth's surface. Water also occur in various solutions or state of purity ( salty sea water, murky drain/waste water, precipitation, that in your drinking glass etc) and three states (solid, liquid, gaseous) Water is made available to plants and animals in various ways (as retained water in soil, as treated water, springs and streams etc)
For water to be made available in these forms, states, and ways to both plants and animals in the right (required) proportions, there needs to be a recycling process.
Instance. Water evaporates from the salty sea, leaving the salt behind , forms clouds and fall as rain relatively pure (but containing small amount of dissloved substances collected from the air). It percolates into the soil and plants absorb; it runs off as streams and animals drink; man collects, treats and uses. Excesses run off back into the seas, rivers and ocean. Both plants and animals continously taking in water, perspire releasing water into the atmosphere as vapour; the soil dries up releasing water as vapour; and all these condense high up in the atmosphere at low temperatures to form clouds and again fall as rain!
What a wonderful planet we have! That is why it is an obligation to preserve nature! We owe our creator that duty. Cheers.

Answer 2

The water cycle moves water between plants and animals...no one place "keeps" it for too long. The water cycle also allows for the transfer of other essential nutrients as well.

Let's say that you're a molecule of water. You fall from the sky, into the ground. The plant pulls you into its root system and you hang out in the plant for a while. Then a herbivore (perhaps a cow...moooo) comes along and eats the plant. Now you're hanging with the cow, until the cow releases you :-) You could be released as part of her milk, as part of her urine, whatever...anyhow, it's all a cycle. Get the picture?

Answer 3

well personally i'd put this in biology, but maybe that's just me.

as for the water cycle there are several spots where contamination is possible. these are the spots that need to be protected or it will come in contact with plants and animals that need the water to survive

Answer 4

It's important to plants and animals because neither can exist without water.

(was that a trick question?)

Answer 5

the importance of water cycle is having pennis on environment

Answer 6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cycle