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OpenStudy (alphadxg):

here is the full explanation, by reading this you should be able to fully understand how the water cycle works, this should explain anything you have troubles with, if you need more help, just post again and i'll guide you through the answer. The water cycle has no starting point, but we'll begin in the oceans, since that is where most of Earth's water exists. The sun, which drives the water cycle, heats water in the oceans. Some of it evaporates as vapor into the air; a relatively smaller amount of moisture is added as ice and snow sublimate directly from the solid state into vapor. Rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere, along with water from evapotranspiration, which is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. The vapor rises into the air where cooler temperatures cause it to condense into clouds. Air currents move clouds around the globe, and cloud particles collide, grow, and fall out of the sky as precipitation. Some precipitation falls as snow and can accumulate as ice caps and glaciers, which can store frozen water for thousands of years. Snowpacks in warmer climates often thaw and melt when spring arrives, and the melted water flows overland as snowmelt. Most precipitation falls back into the oceans or onto land, where, due to gravity, the precipitation flows over the ground as surface runoff. A portion of runoff enters rivers in valleys in the landscape, with streamflow moving water towards the oceans. Runoff, and groundwater seepage, accumulate and are stored as freshwater in lakes. Not all runoff flows into rivers, though. Much of it soaks into the ground as infiltration. Some of the water infiltrates into the ground and replenishes aquifers (saturated subsurface rock), which store huge amounts of freshwater for long periods of time. Some infiltration stays close to the land surface and can seep back into surface-water bodies (and the ocean) as groundwater discharge, and some groundwater finds openings in the land surface and emerges as freshwater springs. Yet more groundwater is absorbed by plant roots to end up as evapotranspiration from the leaves. Over time, though, all of this water keeps moving, some to reenter the ocean, where the water cycle "ends" ... oops - I mean, where it "begins."

OpenStudy (alphadxg):

And a reminder, notice how your question says "In the atmosphere" don't trick yourself, post again if you are confused.

OpenStudy (koikkara):

@alphadxg Lol.... Your work looks like an essay, and by looking at it I feel so sleepy, why not reduce it to points and links.. to make reading interesting like... for example : http://www.kidzone.ws/water/ LOL

OpenStudy (koikkara):

@Gokuporter Hey looking at it doesn't work... post your answer (no matter right or wrong) and @alphadxg Will help you to his best ! Try it Out ! Thank U !! Keep In Touch, with Open study !!

OpenStudy (alphadxg):

@Koikkara Science isn't about reducing, it's about understand.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Thank you @alphadxg

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