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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Energy from the sun causes water in rivers, lakes, and oceans to evaporate into water vapor. Plants also release water vapor through transpiration. Water vapor rises and condenses into clouds as it reaches cooler air. When clouds become too full, the water falls as rain and begins the cycle again of evaporating, condensing, and raining.

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    Water Cycle

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Energy from the sun causes water in rivers, lakes, and oceans to evaporate into water vapor. Plants also release water vapor through transpiration. Water vapor rises and condenses into clouds as it reaches cooler air. When clouds become too full, the water falls as rain and begins the cycle again of evaporating, condensing, and raining.

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Energy from the sun causes water in rivers, lakes, and oceans to evaporate into water vapor. Plants also release water vapor through transpiration. Water vapor rises and condenses into clouds as it reaches cooler air. When clouds become too full, the water falls as rain and begins the cycle again of evaporating, condensing, and raining.

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    Water Cycle

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. Energy from the sun causes water in rivers, lakes, and oceans to evaporate into water vapor. Plants also release water vapor through transpiration. Water vapor rises and condenses into clouds as it reaches cooler air. When clouds become too full, the water falls as rain and begins the cycle again of evaporating, condensing, and raining.

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    Rain

    Introduction
    The world’s water moves between lakes,
    rivers, oceans, the atmosphere and the land in
    an ongoing cycle called the water cycle. As it
    goes through this continuous system, it can be
    a liquid (water), a gas (vapour) or a solid (ice).
    Evaporation
    • Energy from the sun heats up the surface of the
    Earth, causing the temperature of the water in
    our rivers, lakes and oceans to rise.
    • When this happens, some of the water
    evaporates into the air, turning into a gas called
    “water vapour“.
    Evaporation

    Water evaporate into


    water vapour
    • Plants and trees also lose water vapour to
    the atmosphere through the stomata in their
    leaves. This process is known as
    “transpiration“.
    Water vapour escapes
    from stomata in leaves

    Water evaporate into


    water vapour
    Condensation
    • As water vapour rises up high into the sky,
    the water vapour touches cooler surrounding
    air.
    • The water vapour loses heat to the cooler air
    and turns back into tiny water droplets,
    forming clouds. This process is called
    “condensation“.
    • Currents high up in the air move these clouds
    around the globe.
    Condensation

    Water vapour
    loses heat and
    condenses into
    water droplets, Water vapour escapes
    forming clouds. from stomata in leaves

    Water evaporate into


    water vapour
    Rain
    • When too much water has condensed, the
    water droplets in the clouds become too big
    and heavy for the air to hold them. And so
    they fall back down to Earth as rain.
    Rain
    When water
    droplets in the
    clouds become
    too big, the
    water droplets
    fall back down
    to Earth as rain.
    Water vapour
    loses heat and
    condenses into
    water droplets, Water vapour escapes
    forming clouds. from stomata in leaves

    Water evaporate into


    water vapour
    Water Cycle
    • Water that reaches land directly may flow
    across the ground and collect in the oceans,
    rivers or lakes.
    • The cycle then repeats!

    This is the Water Cycle.

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