What are the steps involved in the water cycle?

Answer 1

1. Evaporation (from oceans etc) and transpiration (from vegetation).
2. Condensation, forming clouds.
3. Precipitation in the form of rain, snow, hail and sleet.
4. Run off (surface water, above ground), Underground water (infiltration, percolation), collection and storage.

Evaporation:

Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air. Transpiration is when the water moves out of leaves.

Condensation:

Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation.

You can see the same sort of thing at home... pour a glass of cold water on a hot day and watch what happens. Water forms on the outside of the glass. That water didn't somehow leak through the glass! It actually came from the air. Water vapor in the warm air, turns back into liquid when it touches the cold glass.

Precipitation:

Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. Sometimes this happens when winds blow clouds up the side of a mountain. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.

Collection:

When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the "ground water" that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts all over again.

A:

1-Evaporation: Liquid H2O(water) is turned into gas form and rises into the atmosphere by having the energy in its molecules increased through heat and dryness in the lower atmosphere

2-Condensation: the evaporated H2O now is gaseous form rise into the atmosphere and cools off as it loses energy due to its ascent, the gas molecules exist as supercooled drizzle drops (real term) after reaching a cooling point. In this state they do not contain enough mass separately to fall back down. Other microscopic particles from dust or smoke make their way up high into the atmosphere as well to and give the gas molecules a surface on which to gather until they become too dense for the heat rising off of the earth to support as clouds.

3-Precipitation:The condensed H2O molecules bond together due to surface tension in the now formed raindrop, if the atmospshere is colder they can form snowflakes or hail.

4-Runoff: The precipitated H2O collects in reservoirs to be re-evaporated. Precipitated water runs downs streets and through rivers collecting into larger and larger basins each time until the lowest spots are filled (the oceans and lakes) Special situations also exist in this category concerning irrigation, snow collection and melt, sublimation (where the H20 turns from a solid to a liquid immediately skipping the liquid phase).

Nine Steps:

evaporation--->transpiration--->condensation--->precipitation--->runoff--->percolation--->groundwater--->sublimation--->accumulation

Answer 2

The water cycle goes as follows..

First the water is evaporated, then it sits in the clouds, it condenses and then rains or snows, as fresh water. Then the perpetual loop of the water cycle restarts.

Answer 3

The first step to the water cycle is evaporation and transpirition.The second step is condensation.The third step is precipitation.The last step is collection.The it starts all over

Answer 4

evaporation and then water flowing down to the ocean again

Answer 5

Steps of water cycle
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
collection
These are the 4 steps involved.

Answer 6

All four steps in water cycle:
evaporation , condensation, precipitation and collection
They form a continuous cycle.

Answer 7

step of the wat

Answer 8

Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation.