# The Water Cycle

Understand the water cycle: the Sun heats water in oceans and lakes causing it to evaporate into water vapour, the vapour rises and cools to form clouds (condensation), and water falls back to Earth as rain, snow, or hail (precipitation) — then the cycle repeats

Builds on: Cloud Types (hard, https://ai.page/c/cloud-types/en.md), Where water is found on Earth (soft, https://ai.page/c/where-water-is-found-on-earth/en.md), Heating & Cooling Changes (soft, https://ai.page/c/heating-and-cooling-changes/en.md), Temperature & Thermometers (soft, https://ai.page/c/temperature-and-thermometers/en.md), Rain & Puddles (hard, https://ai.page/c/rain-and-puddles/en.md)

Concept id: the-water-cycle-science. Subject: science. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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