During a rain evaporaton is not significant before touching the ground.
The Earth's water cycle is evaporation of water from the oceans, the clouds so formed, the rain that falls from the clouds, the runoff of the rain into watercourses that flow eventually into the oceans, and the process of evaporation begins again.
The processes that occur in the water cycle: precipitation: when liquid or solid water falls from clouds transpiration: water evaporating out of plants condensation: when water vapor changes into liquid evaporation: when liquid becomes gas
First occur the evaporation.
1) Evaporation - The water must evaporate into water vapor where it will build up in clouds. 2) Condensation - The water must condense from water vapor (gas form) into its liquid state where it then falls to the ground (Precipitation).
Evaporation form clouds and condensed water from clouds forms rains.
The Atmosphere
From evaporated water are formed clouds and from clouds rains; also evaporation has an influence on climate.
sun heats up ocean. evaporation. clouds. rain falls back into ocean
A starting point in the water cycle is the evaporation of the ocean waters. A rather simplified version is: The evaporated water vapour rises from the sea and forms clouds. Rain falls from the clouds, The rainwater flows down wards to reach the sea. Evaporation starts all over again.
evaporation
The sun evaporates water from the Earth and it turns into water vapour. Water vapour rises up into the sky and forms clouds. When the clouds get heavy (means a lot of evaporation), water falls form the sky as rain. The water comes from the clouds. (clouds are not gases. They are solids)
Evaporation causes water levels to fall as water turns to steam and evaporates into the air.