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Explain how the water cycling through the atmosphere and hydrosphere affects weather and climate. Contrast weather and climate.

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Water evaporates after rain or in the ocean because of the heat the sun produces. This evaporated water travels as a gas up into the atmosphere and creates a cloud. This cloud then turns into a rain cloud and starts to rain. The water that fell from the rain cloud then evaporates and the whole process restarts again.

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First, weather is the atmospheric condition occurring over a short period of time in a relatively small location. Climate, on the other hand, is the overall environmental condition over extended periods of time. Next, the water cycle is when water from the surface evaporates as water vapor under high temperatures and condenses in the atmosphere under lower temperatures and precipitates back to the surface. In the event that water evaporates more than it condenses then the weather will be warm to hot, the ground will be relatively dry, and drought over extender periods of time may ensue. On the other hand, if water condenses and precipitates more than it evaporates, then there will be a rainy season, and may extremely lead to landslides and floods.
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