The-water-cycle

The water cycle







    Earth’s water is always on the move, travelling endlessly around our planet in a process known as the water cycle. Without water, life on Earth would be impossible. Earth’s water is stored in many forms, including oceans,lakes, glaciers, and groundwater. This water moves around constantly. The water cycle begins when the Sun’s heat makes water evaporate into the atmosphere, where it becomes clouds, dew, or fog. This water falls back down to Earth’s surface as rain or snow, then streams and rivers carry it to lakes or the sea, where it eventually evaporates and the whole cycle begins again. The presence of water on Earth is what gives our planet its wet and warm atmosphere. The atmosphere protects Earth from the Sun,s radiation, which has allowed the evolution and surnival of life on Earth. Earth is thought to be the only planet in the Universe to support life.

Water on the move

      All water on Earth is included in the constant circulation of the water cycle. Even the snow on mountain peaks or in the ice sheets of the Antarctic is a part of the cycle eventually, it will melt and be on the move again. Undergrund water is also involved it flows in a similar way to rivers, despite being hidden out of sight.