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The water cycle is not The water cycle is not complicated. Every living complicated. Every living thing needs water, which is thing needs water, which is why the ‘water cycle’ is so why the ‘water cycle’ is so important.important.

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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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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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Condensation:

Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, making

clouds.

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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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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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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!