The water cycle describes how water moves through the earth's crust atmosphere and oceans. Heat from the Sun causes liquid water to evaporate from rivers, lakes and oceans
and it becomes a gas called water vapour.. As the gas rises, it condenses and
to create droplets.
Water returns to the ground as solid hail and snow or liquid rain and sinks into the earth.
Below the ground it forms
where water is held between grains in rock
layers, and
Where aquifers intersect or cut the surface of the ground
the liquid water flows out to form
and
Differences in
elements, such as oxygen, can be used to estimate the and
of
water. A process is an event or series of events that cause a change to occur.