Biol 211 Environmental Science: Experimentation Assessment Answer

Experimentation of part of water cycle

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Water vapour was shaped inside the pack that was put inside the re-sealable bag that on the radiant area making the airspace shady while the other bag set on the obscure area had little beads and clear airspace demonstrating the nonattendance of water drops.  Water additionally gathered at the base of the bag put in the obscure area while little water was gathered at the base of the bag put in a bright area (Bethea, 2011).

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Evaporation and infiltration was part of the water cycle that was being tested where the re-sealed bag placed on the sunny location showed that evaporation took place. Infiltration was shown where the water settled on the bottom of the bag.

The Bag that was placed in shady location had additional water collected at the lowest of the bag compared to those collected within the re-sealed bag that was placed within the sunny location that shows that infiltration is tormented by temperature/weather condition (Hamid Moradkhani, et al., 2008).

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The re-sealed bag placed on the sunny location indicated the greatest change which can be attributed to direct exposure to the sunlight which therefore increased temperatures making water to evaporate to the airspace at the top of the bag. This was indicated by cloudy water vapour observed.

Infiltration was more observed in the bag placed in the shady area indicating that there was no water disturbance and water had enough time to infiltrate without any external force.

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When the proportion of land to water is increased, the surface area to be heated by the sun increases, hence more evaporation will be experienced and thus more water vapour will be formed. With a larger land proportion of land to water, water will spread to occupy the spaces thus reducing their molecular connections (cohesive force) and therefore they can be easily broken into vapour (Wang, et al., 2015).

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Increased drought condition reduces the amount of water that can infiltrate into the subsoil surface as well as reduces the rate of condensation as evaporation will increase. Drought conditions such as high temperatures increase the heat on the earth surface. Hence increasing the rising air from the surface of the earth. The heat increases the rate of evaporation and the rising air transports the water vapour by the process of evaporation (Wang, et al., 2015; Abbaspour & Sabetraftar, December, 2005).