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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface. Water evaporates from oceans and land into water vapor in the atmosphere, condenses to form clouds, and falls as precipitation onto land and oceans, where some is absorbed and the rest flows to rivers and lakes or reenters the oceans, completing the cycle. The water cycle began 3.8 billion years ago when the Earth cooled and rain fell onto the oceans, and it is powered by energy from the sun and kept in motion by Earth's gravity.

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface. Water evaporates from oceans and land into water vapor in the atmosphere, condenses to form clouds, and falls as precipitation onto land and oceans, where some is absorbed and the rest flows to rivers and lakes or reenters the oceans, completing the cycle. The water cycle began 3.8 billion years ago when the Earth cooled and rain fell onto the oceans, and it is powered by energy from the sun and kept in motion by Earth's gravity.

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface. Water evaporates from oceans and land into water vapor in the atmosphere, condenses to form clouds, and falls as precipitation onto land and oceans, where some is absorbed and the rest flows to rivers and lakes or reenters the oceans, completing the cycle. The water cycle began 3.8 billion years ago when the Earth cooled and rain fell onto the oceans, and it is powered by energy from the sun and kept in motion by Earth's gravity.

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    The water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the Earth's surface. Water evaporates from oceans and land into water vapor in the atmosphere, condenses to form clouds, and falls as precipitation onto land and oceans, where some is absorbed and the rest flows to rivers and lakes or reenters the oceans, completing the cycle. The water cycle began 3.8 billion years ago when the Earth cooled and rain fell onto the oceans, and it is powered by energy from the sun and kept in motion by Earth's gravity.

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    The Water Cycle

    W
    ater is one of the key
    ingredients to life on
    Earth. About 75
    percent of our planet is covered
    by water or ice. The water
    cycle is the endless process
    that connects all of that water.
    It joins the Earth’s oceans,
    land, and atmosphere.

    The Earth’s water cycle began


    about 3.8 billion years ago
    when rain fell on a cooling
    Earth, forming the oceans. The
    rain came from water vapor that escaped the magma in the Earth’s molten
    core into the atmosphere. Energy from the sun helped power the water
    cycle and Earth’s gravity kept water in the atmosphere from leaving the
    planet.

    The oceans hold about 97 percent of the water on Earth. About 1.7 percent
    of Earth’s water is stored in polar ice caps and glaciers. Rivers, lakes, and
    soil hold approximately 1.7 percent. A tiny fraction—just 0.001 percent—
    exists in the Earth’s atmosphere as water vapor.

    When molecules of water vapor return to liquid or solid form, they create


    cloud droplets that can fall back to Earth as rain or snow—a process
    called condensation. Most precipitation lands in the oceans. Precipitation
    that falls onto land flows into rivers, streams, and lakes. Some of it seeps
    into the soil where it is held underground as groundwater.

    When warmed by the sun, water on the surface of oceans and freshwater
    bodies evaporates, forming a vapor. Water vapor rises into the atmosphere,
    where it condenses, forming clouds. It then falls back to the ground as
    precipitation. Moisture can also enter the atmosphere directly from ice or
    snow. In a process called sublimation, solid water, such as ice or snow, can
    transform directly into water vapor without first becoming a liquid.

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