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This document contains a student's answers to questions about the hydrologic cycle. It defines key terms like precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, and infiltration. It explains the stages of the hydrologic cycle, from precipitation falling as rain or snow, to water flowing into streams and rivers and eventually returning to the atmosphere through evaporation. It discusses the significance of the hydrologic cycle for providing water to living things and moving nutrients. It defines a watershed as an area that drains to a single outlet, and notes how human activities like dams and pollution can impact watersheds. Finally, it lists and describes several major watershed areas in the Philippines.

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CE 106, Duroja - Assignment 1 (Part 1)

This document contains a student's answers to questions about the hydrologic cycle. It defines key terms like precipitation, evaporation, transpiration, and infiltration. It explains the stages of the hydrologic cycle, from precipitation falling as rain or snow, to water flowing into streams and rivers and eventually returning to the atmosphere through evaporation. It discusses the significance of the hydrologic cycle for providing water to living things and moving nutrients. It defines a watershed as an area that drains to a single outlet, and notes how human activities like dams and pollution can impact watersheds. Finally, it lists and describes several major watershed areas in the Philippines.

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Name: Jessie Jade S.

Duroja BSCE 3A
Course: CE 106
Date: January 28, 2022

I. Answer the questions below.

1. Identify and define the important terms in the hydrologic cycle process based on the handout
and videos.

Precipitation – is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the
Earth.
Evaporation – the conversion of water to water vapour from a water surface.
Transpiration – the loss of water vapour through plant tissue and leaves
Evapotranspiration – is the sum of evaporation from the land surface plus transpiration from
plants.
Condensation – the water in the vapour from is converted to liquid droplets. Occurs because of
the temperature difference.
Infiltration - is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.

Percolation - The process of a liquid slowly passing through a filter. It is how coffee is usually
made.
Runoff – occurs when there is more water than land can absorb. The excess liquid flows across
the surface of the land and into nearby creeks, streams, or ponds.
Groundwater - is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand and rock.

2. Explain the hydrologic cycle process. For the sequence of the process refer to the Figure 1 of
the handout.

A portion of precipitation, or rainfall is retained in the soil near where it falls and returns
to the atmosphere via evaporation, the conversion of water to water vapor from a water surface,
and transpiration, the loss of water vapor through plant tissue and leaves. The combined loss
called evatranspiration is a maximum value if the water supply in the soil is adequate at all times.
Some water enters the soil system as infiltration, which is a function of soil moisture
conditions and soil type, and may reenter channels later as interflow or may percolate to recharge
the shallow ground water. Ground water flows in porous media in the subsurface in either
shallow or deeper aquifer systems that can pumped for water supply to agricultural and
municipal water systems.
The remaining portion of the precipitation becomes overland flow or direct runoff, which
flows generally in a down gradient direction to accumulate in local streams that then flow to
rivers. Evaporation and infiltration are both complex losses from input rainfall.
Surface and ground waters flow from higher elevations toward lower elevations and may
eventually discharge into the ocean, especially after large rainfall events. However large
quantities of surface water and portion of ground water return to the atmosphere by evaporation.
Thus completing the natural hydrologic cycle.

3. What is the significance of hydrologic cycle to humans and to the world?

Due to the perfect hydrologic cycle, the water provide people, animals and plants and
also moves things like nutrients, pathogens and sediment in and out of aquatic ecosystems.

4. What is watershed? Why is watershed sometimes called catchment area or drainage basin?

 A watershed is a contiguous area that drains to an outlet, such that precipitation that falls
within the watershed runs off through that single outlet. Watershed is sometimes called
catchment area or drainage basin because the term catchment is sometimes used
synonymously for just the surface portion of the watershed.

5. What is the impact of humans to watershed?

Building dams and rerouting rivers are two examples of ways humans directly impact
water in watersheds. As well as the uses of chemicals that run off the surface. Unhealthy
watersheds affect wildlife. The polluted water supply that results can become harmful to humans.
Aquatic life quickly suffers the effects of watershed pollution, while new pollutants introduced
into ecosystems alter wildlife habitats.

6. Identify the watershed areas in the Philippines. Give the names, locations and pictures if
applicable.

1. Angat Watershed – Norzagaray-San Jose del Monte, Bulacan

2. Magat Watershed – Ifugao, Isabela and Nueva Viscaya

3. Pantabangan-Carranglan Watershed – Nueva Ecija, Nueva Viscaya, and Aurora


4. San Roque Watershed – Pangasinan and Benguet

5. Upper Agno River Watershed – Benguet, Ifugao, Mountain Province, and Nueva
Viscaya

6. Buhi-Barit Watershed – Albay and Camarines Sur

7. Caliraya-Lumot Watershed – Cavite, Kalayaan, Lumban and Paete, Laguna

8. Makiling-Banahaw Watershed – Laguna, Batangas and Quezon


9. Tiwi Watershed – Albay and Camarines Sur

10. Lake Lanao Agus River Watershed – Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur

11. Pulangi Watershed – Bukidnon

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