Amazon Rainforest Water Cycle

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Amazon Rainforest Water Cycle

This diagram shows how water cycles throughout the rainforest;

. Heavy tropical rainfall occurs. It is convectional rainfall and is caused by the process of convection in the atmosphere. When the surface laysers of the atmosphere are heated, the moisture laden air rises in a convection current, and in rising is cooled untill the dew-point is reached, and its water vapour condenses and forms cloud; the convection current is sometimes so stong that the cloud becomes extended extremely high, and its water content becomes so considerable that heavy rainfall is deposited.
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2. 80% of the rainfall is intercepted by trees and plants, and does not reach the ground.

3. High evaptranspiration takes place during the day. This is the loss of moisture from the soil in the form of water vapour, including that lost by evaporation from open bodies of water e.g. rivers, and also that lost by transpiration from growing plants.

4. Warm, moist air rising creates Cumulus and Cumulo Nimbus clouds.

5. During late afternoon/early evening (5-6pm), temperature drops and clouds condense causing rain.

In the Amazon, the rain is relatively steady all ...

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