water cycles
Evaporation-condensation-rainfall sequences
Water cycles refers to the continuous movement of water through Earth's systems—evaporating from oceans and lakes, forming clouds, falling as precipitation, flowing through rivers and groundwater, and returning to the atmosphere.
The term usually appears with the definite article: the water cycle.
As a verb phrase, water cycles describes this recurring circulation: Water cycles through the environment endlessly.
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
- precipitationAtmospheric water deposit
- rain cloudsPrecipitation-bearing formations
- evaporationLiquid turning to gas
- cloudsAirborne water masses
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Unmoving pooled liquid
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