The water cycle

• 1. energy from the sun makes water evaporate from the land and sea turning it into water vapour
  2. water also evaporates from plants this is know as transpiration
  3. the warm water vapour is carried upwards. when it gets higher up it cools and condenses to form clouds
  4. water falls from the clouds as precipitation onto land where it provides fresh water for plants and animals
• 5. some of this water is absorbed by the soil and is taken up by plant roots - provides plants with fresh water for things like photosynthesis. some of the water taken up by plants becomes part of the plant tissues

  6. like pnats and animals need water for the chemical reactions that happen in their bodies. animals return water to the soil and atmosphere through reactions

  7. water that doesn't get absorbs by the soil will runoff into streams and rivers

  8. from here the water then drains back into the sea before it evaporates all over again