Question

what is the water cycle

Answer 1

Evaporation, condensation, cloud formation, precipitation, run off! That's at least the shortened version. Groundwater also happens after precipitation, most of it runs off though.

Answer 2

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

Answer 3

The water cycle is the journey water takes as it circulates from the land to the sky and back again.
This cycle is made up of a few main parts:
- evaporation (and transpiration)
- condensation
- precipitation
- collection

Answer 4

Water evaporates continuously from surface of oceans, seas, rivers, lakes and vegetations on land into the atmosphere due to heat of the Sun. It rises upwards and forms cloud in the sky by mixing with dust particles. The clouds are carried in the air through long distances when cooled sufficiently, water droplets come down as rain. The rain water finds its way back into rivers and sea by completing the water cycle. This circulation of water from the earth's surface to the atmosphere and back to the earth is called water cycle.