what does the water cycle affect?

Answer 1

all of life on this planet as we know it.

Answer 2

I was hoping I wouldn't ever have to fully explain this, but is so happens that I do.

The water cycle affects water level.

How?

Well, when there is precipitation, water rains down from the sky onto the ground. When the water hits the ground, it sweeps away dirt, mold, etc. off the ground and carries it, eventually, to the ocean (first to lakes, streams, etc.)

This brings stones and small pebbles to the bottom of the ocean where then then are swept over and over again by the oceans' current and other small pebbles into sand and mud.

After time (billions and billions of years), the sand and mud is compressed by thousands of pounds worth of weight and with heat. In the end, sedimentary rocks are produced (examples-sandstone).



This is only one example.

The water cycle also returns hydrogen and oxygen back to earth from the atmosphere to keep nature's balance.

The water cycle provides water to plants, humans, and other living organisms. In exchange, many organisms (plants) are able to follow through with processes that make the world go round. One of those processes is photosynthesis.


You can probably find so much more in greater detail which I do not wish to go further into. I do this to preserve my sanity-homework has been killing me lately.

If you need more information, I advise looking it up on google, yahoo, dogpile, or any other search engine as "the effects of the water cycle". I'm sure some college professor or student has written a term paper on it and has posted it on the web somewhere.


I hope that helps,

-Lakota West Firebirds

Answer 3

It affects everything. In it's simplest form the water cycle involves evapouration from the seas and oceans, this rises into the atmosphere and falls to earth as rain. This in turn runs along streams and rivers and back into the seas and oceans.

If the cycle were broken there would be no rain and the earth would effectively become a barren wasteland.

Answer 4

without it we would prbably be gasping for life. let me put it this way. rain comes down, if it just comes down then we do not have enough water in supply so it has to go back up so that we can have water to drink, cook, take a shower,etc., and also save water. it conserves water. and since we need water for just about every thing we do then............ i think you get the picture.

Answer 5

What is the water cycle? I can easily answer that—it is "me" all over! The water cycle describes the existence and movement of water on, in, and above the Earth. Earth's water is always in movement and is always changing states, from liquid to vapor to ice and back again. The water cycle has been working for billions of years and all life on Earth depends on it continuing to work; the Earth would be a pretty stale place to live without it.

Where does all the Earth’s water come from? Primordial Earth was an incandescent globe made of magma, but all magmas contain water. Water set free by magma began to cool down the Earth’s atmosphere, until it could stay on the surface as a liquid. Volcanic activity kept and still keeps introducing water in the atmosphere, thus increasing the surface- and ground-water volume of the Earth.
A quick summary of the water cycle

The Water Cycle: color graphic showing the movement of water through the water cycle, from evaporation and transpiration to condensation, to water storage in the atmophere, to precipitation, to water storage in ice and snow, surface runoff, snowmelt runoff to streams, streamflow, and freshwater storage. A cut away shows the ground water portion of the water cycle, from infiltration to ground water storage and ground water discharge into springs and freshwater storage. Surface runoff, freshwater storage, ground water storage, and ground water discharge are all shown contributing to water storage in oceans, where the evaporation portion of the water cycle starts again. Here is a quick summary of the water cycle. The links in this paragraph go to the detailed Web pages in our Web site for each topic. A shorter summary of each topic can be found further down in this page, though.

The water cycle has no starting point. But, we'll begin in the oceans, since that is where most of Earth's water exists. The sun, which drives the water cycle, heats water in the oceans. Some of it evaporates as vapor into the air. Ice and snow can sublimate directly into water vapor. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere, along with water from evapotranspiration, which is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. The vapor rises into the air where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Snowpacks in warmer climates often thaw and melt when spring arrives, and the melted water flows overland as snowmelt. Most precipitation falls back into the oceans or onto land, where, due to gravity, the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers in valleys in the landscape, with streamflow moving water towards the oceans. Runoff, and ground-water seepage, accumulate and are stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers, though. Much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration. Some water infiltrates deep into the ground and replenishes aquifers (saturated subsurface rock), which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface-water bodies (and the ocean) as ground-water discharge, and some ground water finds openings in the land surface and emerges as freshwater springs. Over time, though, all of this water keeps moving, some to reenter the ocean, where the water cycle "ends" ... oops - I mean, where it "beg

Answer 6

mainly life with out the water cycle refreshing our supply we would all die

Answer 7

Mostly our crops and water supply. We need rain time to time for those reasons.

Answer 8

Oceans and Lakes

Answer 9

da water fall?

Answer 10

All life.
Anything else is irrelevant.