By, for example, draining into rivers.
evaporation and rain
because it was high above the sun
In a mountain. A river drains a large area of the landscape so it has many sources, but the label "the source" is often placed on the part that is furthest inland. In the USA, there is a divide along the rocky mountains. On the west side, water will eventually flow to the pacific ocean, on the east side it will flow to the atlantic. So the source of say a river in California, could be no further east than the rocky mountains.
The windward side of the Rocky Mountains is generally the west side. This is where moist air from the Pacific Ocean encounters the mountains and is forced upward, leading to cooler temperatures and precipitation. As a result, this side tends to have lush vegetation and higher rainfall compared to the leeward side, which is drier and often experiences a rain shadow effect.
Death Valley has the rocky mountains next to it. The mountains are taller than the valley so they block the rain and cool winds from making death valley cooler so it has a hot and dry climate. Tall mountains do block the rain and cool winds but they are not the Rockies. To the West are the Panamints and to the East are the Funeral Mountains.
Once rain has fallen, water often returns to the ocean from collection in rivers and lakes. Sometimes water falls directly into the ocean as rain.
The Appalachian Mountains are older and more eroded than the Rocky Mountains.
No. Only PURE WATER evaporates from the ocean. It evaporates, rises into the atmosphere, and eventually cools down, condenses, and falls as rain. It may have some chemicals other than water in it, but they were picked up from the atmosphere. So, in a nutshell, only water rises from the ocean to make clouds/rain. The salt is left behind.
Fjords A rain shadow.
Fjords A rain shadow.
in the clouds and ocean
it gets water from the rain and the ocean