Water Cycle

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapour.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapour cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

We will be conducting an experiment that looks at the different ways that climate change is affecting the water cycle.

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

Material:

1.  Plastic Bag.
2.  Vivid Marker.
3.  1 cup of water.
4.  2 Drops of food colouring.

Steps:

1.  Get a plastic bag.
2.  Get a vivid
3.  Draw the water cycle on the plastic bag.   

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	yes	yes	yes
Amount of Water	2	2	2
Acidity	1	1	1

Other comments:

1. Water cycle 1 had no acidity

2. Water cycle bag 1-2-3 both have small amount of drips in them

3. Water cycle bag 1,3 have no acidity in them

4. Water cycle bag 1-2-3 all cycle 

Conclusion:

It was fun and I learned heaps

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Storms
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Oceans
8. Water vapour
9. Freshwater
10. Flooding

SOLO Hexagons Activity

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Storms
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Oceans
8. Water vapour
9. Freshwater
10. Flooding

Charles worth Reserve

Charles worth Reserve

That to expect:

Charles worth Reserve’s habitat is a restoration of tidal wetland and surrounding coastal shrub land and forest. This is an important habitat for native wetland birds and will become increasingly important as a habitat for bush birds, lizards and native insects as the vegetation matures. 

Regular working bees:

Join Christchurch City Council and Avon Heath cote Estuary Itaipu Trust

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 every Sunday afternoon to help maintain Charles worth Reserve. Tasks depend on the season and weather but generally involve planting, pruning, watering and invasive weed removal. 

Community:

Join in the fun at Charles worth Reserve's annual planting day!

This year's annual event was held on 19 May and attended by 95 people. Trees for Canterbury

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 kindly donated 1600 seedlings which were all planted in an amazing effort. 

Want to help out at Charles worth? Head to a regular working bee or be the first to find out about upcoming events and register your interest.

What to bring:

• Appropriate clothing for any weather: sunhat, warm jacket and raincoat
• Sturdy footwear or gumboots
• Personal work gloves
• Tools, sunscreen and gloves are supplied.

Skate Park

Skate Park. One day James went the the skate park for a competition. It was hard dropping up and down the half pipe. I had to do my best tricks to win. At the end of the day for the companion of the competition. It goes to James”ya lets go. James beat 30 people to get a trophy. The half pipe was 10 feet a lot of people kids few off their skateboard.

Oil Polution

Oil is polluting our water from ship spillages and waste oil through sewage pipes 
Oil spills make up about 12% of the oil that enters the ocean. The rest come from shipping travel drains and dumping. An oil spill from a tanker is a severe problem because there is such a huge quantity of oil being spilt into one place. Oil spills cause a very localised problem but can be strophic to local marine wildlife such as fish birds and sea otters. 

Oil cannot dissolve in water and forms a thick sludge in the water. This suffocates fish, gets caught in the feathers of marine birds stopping them from flying.