Water cycle or Hydrologic cycle

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Water cycle or Hydrologic cycle
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Water cycle

• Water cycle is the Natural circulation of the eart
  h's water, in which water evaporates 
  into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls 
  as rain(liquid)  or snow(solid),
  returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the
   atmosphere by evapotranspiration.  It is
  also called hydrologic cycle.
• In other words, The continuous process by which wa
  ter is circulated throughout the Earth
  and its atmosphere. The Earth's water enters the a
  tmosphere through evaporation from bodies of water
  like lake, ocean, rivers and from ground surfaces
  , Plants, animals and even us also add water vapou
  r to the air by transpiration. As it rises into th
  e atmosphere, the water vapour condenses to form c
  louds. Rain and snow are the forms of precipitati
  on return it to the Earth, where it flows into bod
  ies of water and into the ground, beginning the cy
  cle again.  

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Water cycle
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Water cycle

• How does water work in a water cycle?
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• In the water/hydrologic cycle, water evaporates
  from oceans, lakes, swamps,
• rivers, plants, animals and even you, in the form
  of  water vapor. The Water 
• vapor condenses into millions of tiny droplets
  that form clouds. Clouds lose their water as snow
  or rain, and this process is called
  precipitation.
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• The water cycle consists of three stages.
• Stage 1 - Evaporation, as the sun's heat converts
  liquid water from rivers, lakes and oceans into
  water vapor.
• Stage 2 - Condensation. As the water vapor rises
  into the atmosphere, it cools and condenses into
  droplets of liquid water. Wind currents carry
  this water as clouds.

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• Stage 3 - Precipitation, in which water falls
  back to Earth as rain or snow.
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• Why does the water cycle is never ending process?
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• The driving force of the water cycle is the
  fluctuation in heat from the sun. The water cycle
  process keeps going because cycles of day and
  night, the seasons and the movement of water in
  any of its forms changes its environment,
  specifically its temperature. It is a complex
  process, involving many stages. Solar warming of
  a large lake causes a large amount of water vapor
  to be released. Cold, dry winds above capture the
  moisture and cool it rapidly, causing it to
  condense into tiny water droplets. These droplets
  then freeze, forming clouds of ice crystals. As
  these clouds are pushed toward shore, the ice
  crystals grow too large to keep suspended in the
  air and fall as snowflakes. Any hills along the
  shoreline force the air upward and increase the
  rate of snowfall. The snow falls on the shore,
  and when conditions are warm enough, begins to
  melt. The resulting liquid water either flows
  back into the lake or is absorbed as groundwater.
  
• Relatively this cycle known as lake effect snow.
  And it is a never ending cycle.
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