The Water Cycle
Everything you need to know about about the water cycle.
Step 1 in the cycle:
Evaporation is the first step, when any type of water, puddle, lake, ocean, or pond, get warm by the radiation that sent heat waves through the air turning the water into water vaper and the water vaper goes up into the air.
This is a pool and the water is being evaporated.
These are the H2O molecules being evaporated.
This is the water in a river being evaporated.
Step 2 In The Cycle:
Condensation, once the water turns into water vaper convection happens, and the vaper will turn back into liquid form (aka fog) which turns into clouds in the sky.
When condensation happens the water turns into clouds.
This arrow in this picture is pointing from the ground to the clouds showing the cloud the water has made.
This is an example of condensation of ground.
Step 3 in the cycle
Precipitation, when this happens the clouds get to heavy with water and so the cloud releases some of the water, and this is what makes rain. Then once the water touches the ground conduction happens and the water heats up.
This is the liquid/rain form of precipitation.
These are four of the different forms.
This is the snow form of precipitation.
Step 4 in the cycle
Runoff is when the water reaches the ground, and the water gathers at the top of a hill; the water gets too full and goes down the hill to a lake, pond, or puddle, forming a stream on the way down.
Here is an example and a small runoff.
This is a full picture of how the whole thing works.
First it snows, next is melts and runs down the hill, then at the bottom in forms a pound.
This is another picture of the bottom of a runoff.