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    Condensation occurs when water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses into liquid water droplets, forming clouds. Precipitation occurs when the water droplets grow too heavy and fall to Earth as rain, snow, or other forms of precipitation. The precipitation collects in rivers, lakes, streams, and is absorbed into the soil, providing fresh water on Earth's surface. This constant cycling of water evaporating, condensing, precipitating, and being absorbed maintains relatively consistent amounts of water on Earth over millions of years.

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    Condensation occurs when water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses into liquid water droplets, forming clouds. Precipitation occurs when the water droplets grow too heavy and fall to Earth as rain, snow, or other forms of precipitation. The precipitation collects in rivers, lakes, streams, and is absorbed into the soil, providing fresh water on Earth's surface. This constant cycling of water evaporating, condensing, precipitating, and being absorbed maintains relatively consistent amounts of water on Earth over millions of years.

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    Condensation occurs when water vapor in the atmosphere cools and condenses into liquid water droplets, forming clouds. Precipitation occurs when the water droplets grow too heavy and fall to Earth as rain, snow, or other forms of precipitation. The precipitation collects in rivers, lakes, streams, and is absorbed into the soil, providing fresh water on Earth's surface. This constant cycling of water evaporating, condensing, precipitating, and being absorbed maintains relatively consistent amounts of water on Earth over millions of years.

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    Condensation

    Precipitation

    Evaporation

    Run off/ ground water

    The Water Cycle Condensation  After a water molecule evaporates into


    Figure 2  This diagram the atmosphere, warm air carries the water molecule upward.
    shows some of the major Condensation is the process by which water vapor becomes
    processes that make up the
    liquid water. As water vapor rises into the colder air, some water
    water cycle. Draw arrows
    vapor cools and condenses into liquid or solid water. Droplets of
    to show the way that water
    moves through the cycle. liquid water and ice crystals collect around solid particles in the
    Then, in the blank spaces, air, forming clouds. Eventually, this results in precipitation.
    write the process that is
    at work. Precipitation  As more water vapor condenses, the water
    droplets and ice crystals grow larger. Eventually, they become
    so heavy that gravity causes them to fall back to Earth in the
    form of precipitation. Water that forms in clouds and falls
     INTERACTIVITY
    to Earth as rain, snow, hail, or sleet is called precipitation.
    Review all of the processes Once it falls, it collects in rivers, lakes, and streams. It is also
    of the water cycle. absorbed by the soil in the geosphere. Precipitation is the
    source of almost all fresh water on and below Earth’s surface.
    For millions of years, the total amount of water cycling through
    Literacy Connection the Earth’s system has remained fairly constant—the rates
    Determine Central Ideas  of evaporation and precipitation are balanced. That means
    As you read, underline that the water you use today is the same water that your
    the central idea of each ancestors used.
    paragraph. Note how this
    idea is developed through
    examples and details.  READING CHECK Draw Evidence  The biosphere interacts
    with the hydrosphere within the water cycle. Cite one example of
    that interaction.

    Introduction to Earth’s Systems

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