Download Water Cycle

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.