How the Water Cycle Works
By Matthew
The water cycle, what is the water cycle, do we really know the water cycle? The water cycle can be really simple for children to understand however, it can also be extremely complicated. Did you know three quarters of the earth is covered in water? But only 3 percent is freshwater and from that three percent only one percent is drinkable because the other 2 percent is ice. All the water that has been on earth has always been here, the water cycle recycles the water through a cycle. The water cycle is a series of repetitive parts that depend on each other. The three main stages are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Let’s look at the first stage of the water cycle.
Evaporation in the water cycle is when the sun heats up water turning it into water vapor. Solids and liquids cool when they evaporate because they give up energy to the escaping molecules. Evaporation of sweat on the skin helps control the human body's temperature. Evaporation process by which a liquid or solid becomes a vapor. Hot water evaporating inside the towers creates steam that rises from large cooling towers.Evaporation is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor. Evaporation is the primary pathway that water moves from the liquid state back into the water cycle as atmospheric water vapor.The reverse process is condensation.
Condensation is the next part of the water cycle. Condensation is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water. Condensation is crucial to the water cycle because it is responsible for the formation of clouds. So what happens during condensation in the water cycle? Water droplets run down the lid and falls back into the pot. That is simply what happens during condensation. Condensation the process by which water vapor (gas) in the atmosphere turns into water (liquid state).The water particles bump into the aerosols and stick together.
Precipitation is the last part of the water cycle before going back to evaporation.
So what is precipitation? Precipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. It is the connection in the water cycle that provides the delivery of atmospheric water to the Earth. Most precipitation falls as rain. Precipitation can only occur after condensation, which is when water turns from a gas to a liquid. The atmosphere is filled with water vapor, which is water in a gaseous state. Sometimes this water vapor cools and builds up on dust particles in the atmosphere, forming a cloud.
In conclusion each part of the water cycle depends on each other. The water cycle is made up of 3 parts evaporation condensation precipitation. But in various climate conditions one part can be dominant. So there you have it the Water Cycle.
