Question

Describe at least three of the water cycle processes you have learned about in the course

Answer 1

Through the hydrologic cycle.

Step-by-step explanation:

Water moves through the hydrologic cycle in three forms: solid, liquid or gas. When the sun shines on the Earth and it’s bodies of water during the day, a process called convection causes some liquid water to evaporate into the air in the gaseous state called vapor, binding with dust particles in the air to form clouds. When the water vapor in the atmosphere reaches the point of saturation, the air cools, water condenses back into a liquid and falls down to Earth in the form of precipitation. Approximately 10% of the water from precipitation is absorbed by plants. The rest of it either collects in oceans, lakes and rivers by runoff or it percolates through many layers of sand and rock underground in the earth’s surface, until it slowly makes its way into larger bodies of water by gravity. Plants use the water they absorb for photosynthesis. Humans, animals and insects absorb some of that water when they eat plants. In the heat of the sun, water once again gets from lakes and oceans back to atmosphere by evaporation, and the hydrologic cycle repeats again by water falling as precipitation.

Answer 2

Evaporation: Water evaporates from the ocean, from the earth's surface and also by organisms, in the phenomenon of perspiration in plants and sweating in animals. Living things, especially plants.

Condensation: Water in the form of steam rises and condenses forming clouds, formed drops of water.

Precipitation: It occurs when the drops of water, which form the clouds, cool, accelerating the condensation and joining the drops of water to form larger drops that eventually precipitate to the earth's surface. Precipitation can be snow or hail or rain

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