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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface. It involves processes such as evaporation where water is heated by the sun and turns to vapor, rising into the atmosphere. As the vapor cools at higher altitudes, it condenses to form clouds through condensation. The clouds then precipitate back down to the Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet or hail through precipitation, completing the cycle as the water re-enters rivers, lakes, oceans and the ground to be heated by the sun and evaporate again.

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface. It involves processes such as evaporation where water is heated by the sun and turns to vapor, rising into the atmosphere. As the vapor cools at higher altitudes, it condenses to form clouds through condensation. The clouds then precipitate back down to the Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet or hail through precipitation, completing the cycle as the water re-enters rivers, lakes, oceans and the ground to be heated by the sun and evaporate again.

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface. It involves processes such as evaporation where water is heated by the sun and turns to vapor, rising into the atmosphere. As the vapor cools at higher altitudes, it condenses to form clouds through condensation. The clouds then precipitate back down to the Earth's surface as rain, snow, sleet or hail through precipitation, completing the cycle as the water re-enters rivers, lakes, oceans and the ground to be heated by the sun and evaporate again.

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    Michelle Murray

    ST10075930
    BEI Group 1

    Natural science ICE TASK 2

    WATER CYCLE
    The water cycle shows the continuous movement of water within the Earth and
    atmosphere. It is a complex system that includes many different processes. Liquid
    water evaporates into water vapour, condenses to form clouds, and precipitates
    back to earth in the form of rain and snow.
    Evaporation: The water cycle begins with evaporation. It is a process where water
    at the surface turns into water vapours. Water absorbs heat energy from the sun
    and turns into vapours. Water bodies like the oceans, the seas, the lakes and the
    river bodies are the main source of evaporation. Through evaporation, water
    moves from hydrosphere to atmosphere. As water evaporates it reduces the
    temperature of the bodies.
    Condensation: As water vaporizes into water vapour, it rises up in the
    atmosphere. At high altitudes the water vapours changes into very tiny particles
    of ice /water droplets because of low temperature. This process is called
    condensation. These particles come close together and form clouds and fogs in
    the sky.
    Preception: The clouds (condensed water vapours) then pour down as
    precipitation due to wind or temperature change. This occurs because the water
    droplets combine to make bigger droplets. Also when the air cannot hold any
    more water, it precipitates. At high altitudes the temperature is low and hence
    the droplets lose their heat energy. These water droplets fall down as rain. If the
    temperature is very low (below 0 degrees), then the water droplets would fall as
    snow. In addition, water could also precipices in the form of drizzle, sleet and hail.
    Hence water enters lithosphere.
    Collection: A lot of the Earth's water does not take part in the water cycle very
    often. Much of it is stored. The Earth stores water in a number of places. The
    ocean is the largest storage of water. Around 96% of the Earth's water is stored in
    the ocean. We can't drink the salty ocean water, so fortunately for us, freshwater
    is also stored in lakes, glaciers, snow caps, rivers, and below the ground in
    groundwater storage.

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