Water and Carbon cycles

• The processes of the water cycle are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, run off/collection, transpiration
• Evaporation: suns heat causes water to evaporate from oceans, animals and plants (transpiration)
• condensation: water cools and condenses, droplets forming clouds
• Precipitation is rain, sleet, snow
• Run off: water collects in rivers and streams, flowing back into ocean
• Infiltration: rain soaks through soil and rock forming ground water (wells)
• Combustion: when we burn fossil fuels containing carbon, we release carbon into the atmosphere
• Carbon sink/reservoir: a natural place that’s stores carbon (forest)
• Roots, stems, leaves store carbon
• Carbon source: where carbon is giving off or released in great quantities (eg volcano erupting)