describe the relationship between Droughts and the water cycle?
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You are shittin' us, right? Nobody is dumb enough to need help with this question.\n\nDrought : lack of rain. \n\nWater cycle: Oceans & lakes, vapur, cloud, rain, streams >>>Oceans & lakes.\n\n\nHow can you NOT see the relationship?
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Answer is C.\n\nThe seasons result from the Earth's axis being tilted to its orbital plane; it deviates by an angle of approximately 23.5 degrees of arc. Thus, at any given time during the summer or winter, one part of the planet is more directly exposed to the rays of the Sun (see Fig. 1). This exposure alternates as the Earth revolves in its orbit. At any given time, regardless of season, the northern and southern hemispheres experience opposite seasons (see Fig. 2 and Month ranges of seasons (below) and Effect of sun angle on climate).\n\nSeasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Niño/ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.\n\nIn the temperate and polar regions, seasons are marked by changes in the amount of sunlight, which in turn often cause cycles of dormancy in plants and hibernation in animals. These effects vary with latitude, and with proximity to bodies of water. For example, the South Pole is in the middle of the continent of Antarctica, and therefore a considerable distance from the moderating influence of the southern oceans. The North Pole is in the Arctic Ocean, and thus its temperature extremes are buffered by the presence of all that water. The result is that the South Pole is consistently colder during the southern winter than the North Pole during the northern winter.\nThe cycle of seasons in the polar and temperate zones of one hemisphere is opposite to that in the other. When it is summer in the Northern hemisphere, it is winter in the Southern hemisphere, and vice versa, and when it is spring in the Northern hemisphere it is autumn in the Southern hemisphere, and vice versa.\n\nIn the tropics, there is no noticeable change in the amount of sunlight. However, many regions (famously the northern Indian Ocean) are subject to monsoon rain and wind cycles. Curiously, a study of temperature records over the past 300 years (David Thompson, Science, April 1995) shows that the climatic seasons, and thus the seasonal year, are governed by the anomalistic year rather than the tropical year.\n\nIn meteorological terms, the winter solstice and summer solstice (or the date maximum/minimum insolation) do not fall in the middle of winter and summer respectively. The heights of these seasons occur up to a month later due to seasonal lag. Seasons though, are not always defined in meteorological terms; see reckoning\n\nCompared to axial tilt, other factors contribute little to seasonal temperature changes. It's a common misconception that the seasons are the result of the variation in Earth’s distance to the sun due to its elliptical orbit.[1] Orbital eccentricity can influence temperatures, but on Earth, this effect is small and is more than counteracted by other factors; research shows that the Earth as a whole is actually a few degrees warmer when farther from the sun.[2] Mars however experiences wide temperature variations and violent dust storms every year at perihelion.[3]\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
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Evaporation. The sun's heat turns water into vapour.
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I am gonna try.... but I don't know about being the smartest person in the world....\n\n1.......This will speed up the water cycle.  I will start at evaporation as evaporation is accelerated by higher temperatures.  Once there is more evaporated water in the clouds, it will rain quicker.\n\n2............  Hurricanes depend on warm water to give them strength.  Have you ever seen a hurricane in Antarctica?  Warm water contains more kinetic energy.  You know what kinetic energy is..
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Typically, headwaters only experience recharge, but a local depression in the land surface can create a window into the groundwater, usually in the form of a lake or swamp.  Water here can flow downstream, and thus can add to discharge.
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Evaporation: Water from a lake, stream or any body of water forms into a gas and rises up into the sky.\n\nCondensation: The evaporated water cools down in the higher atmosphere and forms small molecules. Many of these small molecules stick together to form clouds.\n\nPrecipitation: Once the cloud is too big and can't hold that much water, the water falls down as either rain, hail, sleet, or snow, depending on the temperature.\n\nCollection: The water falls into a body of water and collects there. Then it evaporates into the air again and the water cycle starts all over.
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mainly to do with temperature and climate in various parts of the world be unable to sustain a  natural water supply
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Okay, for plants to gain energy they break down sunlight through their cells in the way that is called photosynthesis. However, to do this, cells must keep their leaves open and faced towards the sunlight. Transpiration is like us sweating: we loose water in the process to cool down. The heat, air pressure, and solar radiation contribute to this. Because plants need energy, they have to open up and allow transpiration to happen. While they loose water, they gain energy. They just soak up more water from the ground. That is another reason why, if it is in a drought, that plants wither and die. They not only don't have enough water to keep themselves "fed" but the air is soaking up water when they gain energy.
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When the water supply evaporates.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Water_cycle.png
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Potential Evapotranspiration (PET) is the amount of water that could be evaporated from land, water, and plant surfaces if soil water were in unlimited supply. PET calculations are based on standard weather station data (or in our case, interpolated climatic data from our previous study), and correlate well with the distribution of forest types, and, to some degree, the susceptibility of the landscape to fire. \n\n PET – P (precipitation) can be calculated to estimate monthly or seasonal water balance.  Positive values indicate that PET exceeds precipitation, negative values show moisture surplus.  PET-P was calculated for April through October and as mean PET-P for the growing season months (May through September).|
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Quite simple really, the larger, broader and thin walled  the leaf the more evaporation, hot dry climate = small, thin or thick walled leaves, damp = large, broad, thin walled leaves.\n\nSort it from there, that's as much help as I'm willing to give as I refuse to do all your work for you.
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Earth's water is always in movement, and the water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Since the water cycle is truly a "cycle," there is no beginning or end. Water can change states among liquid, vapor, and ice at various places in the water cycle, with these processes happening in the blink of an eye and over millions of years.\n\nAlthough the balance of water on Earth remains fairly constant over time, individual water molecules can come and go in a hurry. The water in the apple you ate yesterday may have fallen as rain half-way around the world last year or could have been used 100 million years ago by Mama Dinosaur to give her baby a bath.
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The water cycle: water evaporates on the Earth's surface (oceans, plants...), gets into the athmosphere, forms clouds then falls back to Earth as rain or snow, and the cycle restarts.
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http://eo.ucar.edu/basics/images/usgs_water_cycle.jpg
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well if they are growing crops and there's a drought and the plants can't get to the water, the farmer won't have enough food, and if they sell their crops, since there's no crops, the farmer won't have money.
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If you think about it, the "source" of a river is not a real thing; It's just a single spot in the water cycle. Rain falls, collects, runs into streams, runs into rivers, run to a lake or an ocean, evapourates into clouds, and goes round again.  You could argue that anywhere in this cycle is a starting point, or nowhere.  Gravity & evapouration are driving this cycle.  In the same way, winds are just air moving from an area of higher pressure to an area of lower pressure. What causes these differences in pressure is what starts the winds a-blowing.  Some of the factors involved are temperature changes in the oceans, and the friction of the atmosphere against the earth as it turns.