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What is the MAIN reason water from the oceans turns to water vapor, and then evaporates into the air?

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Answer: heat from the sun

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This has a two word answer: sun's heat. The faster moving molecules near the ocean's surface are provided with enough energy from the sun to escape the surface they are near.

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