The Water Cycle

Did you know that ...

For total lack of anything else to talk about, the water cycle goes thus:

1. water falls down as precipitation onto land or sea
2. part of the precipitation evaporates back into the air
3. the rest of the precipitation that fell on sea joins the water there and evaporates into the air
4. the rest of the precipitation that fell on land percolates through the ground and either goes into plants / animals or rejoins groundwater (or they could directly flow into the sea ... like on flood days, or in rivers)
5. groundwater flows to rejoin the oceans and seas, water in animals and plants evaporate into the air through transpiration (aka breathing)
6. all that evaporated water concentrates eventually around small motes of dust in the atmosphere and eventually falls down as precipitation

here's a diagram I pulled off of Google Images (courtesy to http://www.educ.uvic.ca/):


Well, now you know!