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The hydrologic cycle or the water is one among the most important cycles on earth.
Throughout the cycle, a never-ending repeated change in water takes place undergoing different
processes to change into three phases of matter - solid as ice, liquid as water, and gas as vapour.
This three changes take place when heat is either added or removed from a certain phase of the
water; that is when heat is added to the solid water, it melts and turn as liquid, when heat is
added to a liquid water, it evaporates and turns as gas, and when a heat is removed from water
vapour, it condenses and precipitates to become liquid.
Any droplets of water in the environment, in the plants and animals, and any water from any
body of water - oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, streams, pools, etc. can change into water vapour
which is much facilitated when heat is added mainly from the sun. The snow, ice caps and
glaciers covering any Earth surface sublimate directly as water vapour or can melt when heat is
added and flows back to any body of water or sips down to the aquifers which later turns to the
process of evaporation.
Millions of tiny droplets form water vapour which condenses to form clouds in the
atmosphere. Clouds undergo changes and with added heat. With the movement of the air
currents, clouds move around and when the cloud particles collide, they grow and fall off the
atmosphere as precipitation where clouds lose their water falling as rain, sleet, hail or snow
falling back to the down parts of the Earth.
The precipitated water can fall off directly back to any bodies of water. It can fall anywhere
mostly in the grounds and is either absorbed into the grounds or flows as surface runs off going
into rivers that flows back into the ocean. Some of the water absorbed in the ground is taken up
by plants. Some water absorbed infiltrates the ground replenishing the aquifers holding

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The hydrologic cycle or the water is one among the most important cycles on earth. Throughout the cycle, a never-ending repeated change in water takes place undergoing different processes to change into three phases of matter - solid as ice, liquid as water, and gas as vapour. This three changes take place when heat is either added or removed from a certain phase of the water; that is when heat is added to the solid water, it melts and turn as liquid, when heat is added to a liquid water, it evaporates and turns as gas, and when a heat is removed from water vapour, it condenses and precipitate ...
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