Why is the ocean an important part of the watercycle?

Answer 1

to evaporate

Answer 2

Yes it is a very important part of the watercycle here is a bit of an explanation i wrote

Do you know that we are still drinking the same water that the dinosaurs did?! The water cycle has been happening ever since the start of the world and will proberly still be happening for another 10 thousand years. The next time you have a glass of water just think, every drop of water in that glass would have seen so many amazing things, when apes roamed the land to today when TVs and electronics ruled the world, on it's continuos journey in the water cycle.

The water cycle has no starting point but we will start with the oceans because that is were most of the earth's water existes (97% percent to be exact and that's alot)! The surface of the ocean is heated up by the sun - only the surface is heated up; the oceans are very deep, miles and miles sometimes, and the suns rays aren't strong enough to penatrate all the way through to the bottem. Some of the water is evaporated into the air and then turns into a gas called water vapour. Ice and water can sublimate straight into the air, and water from Evapotranspiration, which is water transpired from plants and evaporated from the soil. These things are important parts of the water cycle as well...............

Sublimate is when snow or ice changes into water vapor in the air without melting into water first. The opposite of sublimation is "deposition", where water vapor changes directly into ice---such a snowflakes and frost.

Next, rising air currents take the vapor up into the atmosphere. The vapor rises and the air gets colder, consequently causing the vapor to turn into clouds. This process is called condensation.

When the sun warm's the surface of the earth, the earth warms the air near it. This warm air is always rising, and cooler air is coming in to replace it. This moving air is called wind. Wind is the thing that pushes clouds along in till they reach land. When the wind comes to a mountain it heads upwards taking the cloud with it. As the cloud gets higher and higher it also gets colder and colder, then there's precipitation.

Precipitation happens when the air is really cold so it can't hold so much water, and the cloud is full of water droplets that the air can't hold so it rain, but it might not be rain when it reaches the earth........

and in the end the water water reterns back to the ocean (river lake whatever) and the water cycle starts again! :)

Answer 3

oceans provide fresh water for earth through the water cycle

Answer 4

the ocean is the source of water that starts it.without it there wouldn't be any evaporation,codensation,precipitation,and runoff into the ocean

Answer 5

to salty waters affest the waters as in fresh

Answer 6

Oceans have important role. It is a part of water cycle.

Answer 7

to evaporate