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.

The diagram illustrates the

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cycle in forested and city

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. Generally,

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process is cyclic and composed of six stages in both

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, four of them take place above the

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and two are under the

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.

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cycle starts from the precipitation process, which remains the same in forested and urban places. After rainfall, there is the process of infiltration, where

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propagates the permeable topsoil and less permeable subsoil on rocks. As

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reaches the

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table, it couples with baseflow and flows to the

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, where it couples with

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. In urban

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, the processes of infiltration and the level of baseflow are reduced and lead to increased erosion. The stages above the

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include evaporation, transpiration and

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.

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transpiration in forested

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remains the most significant amount of

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, which returns to the air, evaporation and

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are the least considerable.

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, these stages in urban places are reduced, and there is an increase in pollution of

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.