Is there a beginning to the water cycle?

Answer 1

Water cycle as the name tells, is a continuous flow of water. It is a method inwhich our earth recycles the water thus maintaining the same amount of water now as the when earth was created. It does not have a beginning nor an end. However, when we explain the steps of the water cycle, also called as hydrologic cycle, we start with the water being evaporated from lakes, streams, dams, rivers, oceans etc or simply the process of evaporation from the surface water and ground water (the water from the ground). We end the one cycle with water being flowed back as surface and ground water. Eventually, the cycle again begins.

Answer 2

The water cycle really doesn't have a beginning, it just goes around in an endless loop, hence the name 'Water Cycle'.Everything is interdependant on the other.

It runs something like this;

The heat of the Sun evaporates the Sea and rivers, or maybe ground water, and it travels as water vapours up into the atmosphere until it cools down and forms as a cloud. The cloud is blown around by the wind, and eventually rains.

The most stereotypical example of the Water Cycle, has that it rains on a mountain, goes into the mountain streams and then gets transported into either a river or the sea, most of the time a river flowing into the an ocean. Thus the whole process repeats itself.

Answer 3

It's cycle, so it keeps going round and round, so there isn't any "start".

But it's easiest to describe when you start with the Sun, which does provide the energy to begin with.

The Sun evaporates water in the oceans. The water vapor forms clouds. The clouds blow ashore. Eventually, the clouds form rain. Rain falls on the ground. Plants grow, and the remaining water flows into creeks, then streams, then rivers. Some of the rivers flow into dams, and the water flows through hydroelectric turbines to generate electricity. After that, the rivers flow to the oceans, and then...

Answer 4

The water cycle does not have a specific beginning as it is a continuous process where water moves through the atmosphere, earth, and bodies of water. It involves processes like evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff which constantly occur and do not have a definite starting point.

Answer 5

It can start from any source of water such as a lake or an ocean... but if you think about it the lakes are all formed from an ocean.

Answer 6

I think that it start sometime when it is precipitation, evaporation, and condensation.

Answer 7

Since it is a cycle, it would be correct to say it starts with evaporation or precipitation.

Answer 8

The water cycle is a never ending process. Like a circle it has no end, and no begining.