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Water Cycle

Water on our planet moves in a continuous cycle. The water evaporates, vapors rise, cool and condense into clouds. The clouds move over the land, and precipitation falls. The water fills lakes, streams and rivers, and eventually flows back into the oceans where evaporation starts the process anew. Water can also penetrate into the soil (11% of the water). Another process is also important in the water cycle, that is transpiration by plant leaves: as plants absorb water from the soil, the water moves from the roots through the stems to the leaves, where it can evaporate.

Precipitation
Is the name of water that falls out of clouds: it can be rain, or snow, or hail... In some clouds the tiny water droplets come together by collision to make bigger drops. As the drops become bigger and bigger (volume increases about a million times) they become too heavy for the air to support and they fall as rain.