The Water Cycle: A visual guide showing how water evaporates from the sea, condenses into clouds, falls as precipitation, and returns to the earth through various processes.

- Evaporation: Water from the sea, lakes, and rivers turns into water vapor due to heat from the sun.
- Transpiration: Plants release water vapor into the air through their leaves.
- Condensation: Water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets, forming clouds.
- Precipitation: Water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail onto the land and water bodies.
- Surface Runoff: Water flows over the land surface into rivers, streams, and eventually back to the sea.
- Infiltration: Water seeps into the ground and becomes groundwater.
- Collection: Water gathers in oceans, lakes, rivers, and underground aquifers, ready to begin the cycle again.