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Water Cycle Diagram

The Water Cycle runs on 4 main actions. They are Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, and Collection. The sun evaporates the water from water storage's like the oceans or the lakes, causing it to become a gas called water vapor. It rises into the atmosphere and condenses back to water and is held in clouds.
Then they have precipitation, which the water storage in the clouds lets go. They also have water storage in ice and snow in the mountains; when it melts, it runs off to streams. It's the same thing with precipitation, except it's not frozen. Sometimes it seeps down into the aquifer.
It hits the ground and it creates ground water discharge, which can run into lakes and oceans. Which will start the cycle over again.