Band 5+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The diagram below shows the water cycle in both forested and urban areas. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The diagram illustrates how the forest and the urban areas have the phenomenon of the different stages of the water cycle.

Overall, the stages of the water cycle are transparently different. As when the water precipitates, the baseflow is reduced resulting in increasing erosion and an increased polluted runoff as compared to in the forest, precipitation occurs and is absorbed by the tree’s roots.

In the urban areas, when precipatation occurs resulting in a reduced infiltration, meaning that the vegetations do not absorb much water, resulting in an increased erosion and pollution. In contrast to the forest’s water cycle. As the forest contains soil which is rich in nutrients it makes the water to easily infiltrate the roots and run off smoothly.

Due to natures course in, evaporation and transpiration in the urban areas is slightly decreased as compared to the forests evaporation and transpiration due to pollution. As the forests’ air is fresh and the top layer is permeable by rain, this would result in being a richful vegetation of growing plants or fruit plants as compared to the urban areas.