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 gives information about the cycle that

water

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follows in

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full of trees

as well as

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in city

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.

Overall

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, the stages are nearly the same in both

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.

The first step is

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the fall down of

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during rainfalls and the

last

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is the return of

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to air by transpiration and evaporation. Between these steps, part of the

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enters

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the ground by infiltration,

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another part flows on the ground. In both

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, the ground is divided into a permeable topsoil and a less permeable subsoil made

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rocks. Urban

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are characterised by reduced infiltrations and so a decreased baseflow.

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, the reduced infiltrations are converted into a higher polluted runoff.

This

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leads to an increased erosion of the rock subsoil

that is

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absent in the forested

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.

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, the absence of trees in urban

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means that cities see a reduced amount of

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that returns to air by transpiration and evaporation.