How the water cycle works?

How does the Water Cycle Work?
I am learning to inform my audience through explanation writing
By Henry




What's been around since the Earth was created? You guessed it, water! Did you know that water covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface. Out of all of earth’s water 97 percent of it is saltwater and the remaining three percent is freshwater, but only 1 percent is potable, potable means drinkable. Some of the water you use for drinking, washing and watering plants could have been water in a water cycle millions of years ago. A cycle is a series of steps that repeats itself again and again. The water cycle has three main stages evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Without a single one of these stages the water cycle would not work. This leads us into the first stage evaporation.


The first part of the cycle is called evaporation. Evaporation is the process when the sun heats up bodies of water, then the water gets so hot and turns into an invisible gas that we cannot see, called water vapour. Then the water vapour evaporates into the sky. Once the water vapour is in the sky the second stage forms condensation.


Condensation is the process when water vapour condenses and forms clouds . Then after the clouds are formed the water vapour forms back into water droplets again and cools down. Now in the cloud the rain droplets form the third stage precipitation.

Precipitation is the process when the water in the clouds gets really heavy and falls to the surface of earth. Did you know that the water from the clouds could fall in the form of snow, sleet or hail? After precipitation collection comes in to finish up the water cycle.

Collection is after the water precipitates it flows down from the mountains and collects in rivers, estuaries, streams and lakes. This ends up back in the oceans then the water cycle repeats itself.

To conclude, think about the three main stages evaporation the process when the sun heats up bodies of water, condensation the process when the water vapour makes clouds and finally precipitation the process when liquid falls from the sky in the form of rain, snow, sleet and hail. Remember only one percent of water is potable so do not waste water, water is a precious resource that we need to look after as long as humans live.