Tips to understand the water cycle

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2. The water cycle is not
complicated. Every living
thing needs water, which is
why the ‘water cycle’ is so
important.
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3. Water never stops moving.
Snow and rain fall to the earth
from clouds. The rain and
melted snow run downhill into
rivers and lakes, sometimes
crashing over waterfalls.
Eventually the water flows into
the ocean.
During evaporation, the water
turns from liquid into gas, and
moves from oceans and lakes
into the atmosphere where it
forms clouds.
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6. Evaporation:
Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in
rivers or the ocean and turns it into vapor or
steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the
river or ocean and goes into the air.
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7. Condensation:
Water vapor in the air gets cold and
changes back into liquid, making
clouds.
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8. Precipitation:
The process of precipitation is when so
much water has condensed that the air
can’t hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy
and water falls back down to earth in the
form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.
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9. Collection:
When water falls back to earth like in precipitation, it
may fall back in to oceans, or rivers or it may end up
on land. When it ends up on land, it will soak into the
earth and become part of the “ground water” that
plants and animals drink or it may run over the soil
and collect in the oceans or rivers where the cycle
starts all over again!
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10. People use water in many different
ways, we need it to survive, and if it
wasn’t for the water cycle cycling
through we probably wouldn’t exist. In
conclusion I would like to say that we
need the water cycle very very much. I
would like to thank you for viewing
my project!
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