The Water Cycle

In class we did an activity which represented the water cycle. In this cycle, water is transferred into many different reservoirs, but overall it maintains balanced. In the first round we had a few students holding a cup walking around. They were the clouds. Then about fifteen people walked around with spoons and their job was to take a spoon out of the reservoir and empty it into a cloud (cup). This showed evaporation. The reservoirs were places like the ocean, plants and animals, aquifer, and many more. In the second round, there were people walking around with spoons, cups, and bigger cups. The bigger cups were in charge of taking water out of the ocean and aquifer and filling it up in the smaller reservoirs like agriculture. This represented the human impact on it. In the last round everything remained the same except for the blue dye that was added to some cups. The blue dye represented the pollution from factories and humans. As the water was recycled throughout the blue dye spread everywhere. Overall, the rain cycle was balanced because there was an equal everywhere.