The document summarizes the key processes in the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff. It explains that evaporation occurs when the sun causes water to rise from bodies of water as a gas. Condensation happens when the water vapor cools and condenses to form clouds. Precipitation then occurs when water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet or hail. Finally, runoff describes water flowing over the earth's surface and collecting in lakes, oceans, rivers and streams, completing the cycle.