It is time for another weather tour experiment! This is experiment is to learn more about the water cycle, the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and ...

Students will be able to develop and explain a particle-level model to describe evaporation and condensation in the context of the water cycle. The water cycle depends on the processes of evaporation ...

BYU's new hydrologic cycle, representing major water pools in blue text, natural water fluxes in black text and human-impacted fluxes in orange. Illustration by Eliza Anderson. The United States ...

Water moves between pools through evaporation into water vapor, transport through the atmosphere, condensation to form clouds, and returns to the surface as precipitation. At its core, the water cycle ...

Cracked mud and salt on the valley floor in Death Valley National Park in California can become a reflective pool after rains. In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of ...

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As the planet continues to warm, this cycle is expected to be increasingly stretched, warped and broken. The water cycle that shuttles Earth’s most vital resource around in an unending, life-giving ...