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Water Cycle

The water cycle describes how water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rises into the atmosphere as vapor, condenses into clouds, and falls as precipitation. Water that falls as precipitation collects in rivers, lakes, soil, and porous rock layers, with much of it flowing back into oceans to evaporate again. This cyclic movement of water in and out of the atmosphere through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation drives weather patterns on Earth.

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Water Cycle

The water cycle describes how water evaporates from the Earth's surface, rises into the atmosphere as vapor, condenses into clouds, and falls as precipitation. Water that falls as precipitation collects in rivers, lakes, soil, and porous rock layers, with much of it flowing back into oceans to evaporate again. This cyclic movement of water in and out of the atmosphere through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation drives weather patterns on Earth.

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WATER CYCLE

WHAT IS IT? (UNSA NI?)


WHAT IS WATERCYCLE
THE MAIN IDEA
The water cycle describes how water evaporates from the
surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and
condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the
surface as precipitation. The water falling on land collects
in rivers and lakes, soil, and porous layers of rock, and much
of it flows back into the oceans, where it will once more
evaporate. The cycling of water in and out of the
atmosphere is a significant aspect of the weather patterns
on Earth.

WHAT IS WATER CYCLE


DIAGRAM
DIAGRAM OF THE WATER CYCLE
DIAGRAM
COMPONENTS IN WATER CYCLE
WHAT ARE THE EVENTS THAT HAPPEN IN WATER CYLE?
Evaporation
- The process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water
vapor.

Transpiration
- The release of water to the atmosphere from plants. Plants release water
vapor from small pores (stomata) in their leaves as a part of photosynthesis.

Condensation
- The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water.

COMPONENTS
Evapotranspiration
- The sum of evaporation and plant transpiration. Potential evapotranspiration is
the amount of water that could be evaporated or transpired at a given
temperature and humidity, if there was plenty of water available.

Precipitation
- is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls quickly
out of a cloud. This is in contrast to cloud water, which is ice or liquid water that falls
slowly enough that it can remain in the air for hours. The main forms of precipitation
include drizzle, rain, sleet, snow, graupel and hail. It occurs when a local portion of
the atmosphere becomes saturated with water vapor and the water condenses.

COMPONENTS
EXTRAS
Extra learnings and trivia
The Earth only consist of 97% of water but only 3% is fresh water the rest is salt
water. Two-thirds of the fresh water is stored in the polar ice caps, glaciers,
and snow packs, making it inaccessible for a long period of time. Some fresh
water are stored underground and on rivers or lakes, this is due to the holes or
roots of plants that when during precipitation it stores water in underground
caves, it is called ground water. Sometimes during precipitation the water
rundown on mountains that forms rivers then lakes.

EXTRAS

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