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THE WATER CYCLE (page from a Key Stage 3 science textbook)

The Earth's water moves all the time between the sea, the air and the land. This movement is called the water cycle.

The heat of the Sun warms the water in seas, lakes and rivers. Some of this water turns into vapour and rises into the air: this is evaporation. Plants also give off vapour into the air through their leaves: this is transpiration.

As it rises, the vapour meets colder air and turns into tiny droplets of water: this is condensation. The droplets form clouds.

When the droplets join together and become too heavy, they fall to the ground as rain, snow or hail: this is precipitation.

Some of the water that falls runs over the surface and reaches rivers and then the sea. Another part soaks into the ground: this is infiltration, which feeds the groundwater stored underground. Then the cycle starts again.