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Kai Yeung The Beginning The water cycle can begin anywhere, but the most known one is the ocean so that is where it will start. The ocean is a huge place filled with the liquid known as water. Each tiny little object inside the water, is a water molecule and the water molecule or H2O is plays a big role in the water cycle. Evaporation The next stage of the water cycle deals with the act of a liquid turning into a gas, otherwise known as evaporation. The Sun’s energy or radiation waves, heat the ocean water and turns into water vapor and stays up in the atmosphere. Condensation After, the water molecules get colder due to the lack of heat in the atmosphere and condensate into what is known as a cloud. A cloud consists of all solids, liquids, and gases. Precipitation/Crystallization In the clouds, convection happens and water molecules form either water or ice droplets depending on where the clouds are. When they do, the clouds let out either snow, sleet, hail, or rain to the land of Earth. They will each end up on the ground, on the mountains, or in reservoirs and runoffs due to the gravity on Earth. Snow The snow on the mountains will eventually melt thanks to conduction so the snow will turn into water. Since it will turn into a liquid, it will glide it’s way down and find it’s way into a runoff/reservoir. Run offs and Reservoirs When both the liquid from the snow and precipitation come together, they form either a run off that will then make it’s way back to the ocean to finish one cycle, or a reservoir which becomes a lake. Ground Once the precipitation falls to the Earth, some of it will land on the ground itself. When it does, it will sink to the under ground or otherwise known as infiltration. Plants Plants give water to the ground from their roots to their leaves. This is called transpiration. Aquifer The aquifer comes from the infiltration on the ground. It lies beneath the ground and flows it’s way back to the ocean.