Water Cycle Processes

What is streamflow? How do streams get their water? To learn about streamflow and its role in the water cycle, continue reading.

Perhaps you've never seen snow. Or, perhaps you built a snowman this very afternoon and perhaps you saw your snowman begin to melt. Regardless of your experience with snow and associated snowmelt, runoff from snowmelt is an important component of the global movement of water, possibly even if you live where it never snows. Note: This section of the Water Science School discusses the Earth's...

A Víz Körforgása , The Water Cycle, Hungarian

The atmosphere is the superhighway in the sky that moves water everywhere over the Earth. Water at the Earth's surface evaporates into water vapor, then rises up into the sky to become part of a cloud which will float off with the winds, eventually releasing water back to Earth as precipitation.

The water stored in ice and glaciers moves slowly through are part of the water cycle, even though the water in them moves very slowly. Did you know? Ice caps influence the weather, too. The color white reflects sunlight (heat) more than darker colors, and as ice is so white, sunlight is reflected back out to the sky, which helps to create weather patterns.

Quizás pienses que cada gota de lluvia que cae del cielo, o que cada vaso de agua que tomas están hechos de agua nueva pero, de hecho, siempre ha estado aquí y forman una parte constante del ciclo del agua.

Mohli by ste si myslieť, že každá kvapka dažďa, ktorá spadne z oblohy alebo každý pohár vody, ktorý vypijete, je z čisto novej vody. V skutočnosti je to ale stále tá istá voda, ktorá tu je a bola vždy a ktorá je trvalou súčasťou kolobehu vody!

Bíonn uisce an Domhain de shíor ag gluaiseacht. Is é timthriall an uisce (nó an timthriall hidreolaíoch mar a thugtar air uaireanta) a chuireann síos ar shíorghluaiseacht an uisce ar dhromchla an Domhain, os cionn an dromchla, agus thíos faoi. Bíonn staid an uisce á hathrú de shíor idir leacht, gal, agus leac oighir. Tarlaíonn na próisis sin i bhfaiteadh na súl agus thar na milliúin bliain.

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Vous pouvez penser que chaque goutte de pluie qui tombe du ciel, ou chaque verre d'eau que vous buvez, est tout nouveau, mais, en fait, il a toujours été là et fait partie du cycle de l'eau.

Yes, water below your feet is moving all the time, but not like rivers flowing below ground. It's more like water in a sponge. Gravity and pressure move water downward and sideways underground through spaces between rocks. Eventually it emerges back to the land surface, into rivers, and into the oceans to keep the water cycle going.

The ground stores huge amounts of water and it exists to some degree no matter where on Earth you are. Lucky for people, in many places the water exists in quantities and at depths that wells can be drilled into the water-bearing aquifers and withdrawn to server the many needs people have.