Have you ever wondered where all of the refreshing drinking water comes from ,well you're about to find out .The water actually has been through something that we call a cycle. A cycle is something that is repeated over and over again and that is exactly what happens to the water that we drink ,but the water we drink goes through one specific cycle, the water cycle .
Firstly tiny parts of the water in the streams,lakes,rivers,ice and snow basically gets sucked up by the clouds , this is called evaporation. evaporation is when the warmth from the sun causes small amounts of water to rise up into the air and then it turns into water vapour (gas).
Secondly as the water vapour rises higher into the atmosphere it cools and slowly starts to transform into liquid water again, this is called condensation . condensation is crucial for the water cycle because it is responsible for forming the clouds. The clouds are formed when the water droplets from the condensation float off and sort of combine with one another to form a cloud.
Thirdly , more and more condensation joins up until the cloud is about to rain this is called precipitation . As more and more condensation joins the cloud the cloud gets darker and darker until it is heavy with lots of water. , then it starts to rain.
This cycle is repeated over and over again probably until the sun explodes . In conclusion evaporation,condensation and precipitation which are all parts of the water cycle are keeping us alive and without it nothing would live, I hope that everyone who reads this will know a bit more stuff than they did before they read it .
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