Water Cycle
Water is essential to all living beings because it is used to hydrate plants, animals, and humans. Living beings find water in lakes, rivers, oceans, and man-made reservoirs.
The forms of water are solid, liquid, and gas. Ice is a solid form, rain is a liquid form, and vapor is a gas form. Water becomes solid at 0 degrees Celsius and becomes vapor at 100 degrees Celsius. Snow helps control the Earth's temperature, water vapor forms clouds, and rain fills up reservoirs.
Water on Earth's surface, such as in oceans or seas, gets heated by the sun and becomes vapor. This is called evaporation. When the vapor cools, it becomes water droplets through a process called condensation. It takes millions of water droplets to form raindrops. When the droplets become heavy, they fall as rain. However, when the droplets freeze due to the temperature inside the cloud, they fall as snow, hail, or sleet. This process is called precipitation.
Changes in the climate can affect the water cycle. This is called global warming. It can be caused by pollution and deforestation. But we can solve that! We can use clean fuels and plant more trees. Doing these things can help save the water cycle and prevent flooding and droughts.
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