Process Narrative

Examining the Water Cycle

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Examining the Water Cycle

The planet is abundant with water and this vast reserve undergoes a cyclical process . From oceans to mountains , water undergoes several transformations in the

process and the scale where the water cycle can occur can extend to several hundreds of miles . The fact that the process is called water cycle ' suggests that water is always on the move , in a manner of speaking

One stage in the water cycle is called the precipitation stage . In this process , water falls back to the earth usually in the form of rain from the nimbus clouds (Senior , et al ,

. 1306 ' However , rain is not only the form of precipitating water as it also includes the snow fall that we experience during the cold winter season , the hail that we see fall from the sky during thunderstorms as well as tornadoes , and even the thick blanket of fog that we see during the early hours of the morning and just before the night sets in on several occasions . All of these examples are forms of water in the precipitation stage of the water cycle

After the precipitation stage , water is then stored in the many different land and water forms in the earth . For instance , the rain that fell from the sky is probably collected in shallow ponds , lakes , rivers and other bodies of water . A significant volume of this precipitation is collected in the largest possible body of water in the world - oceans Moreover , the precipitated water can also be collected high in the mountains or in the plains of the rural farms and other land forms . Even on the ground surface of the earth regardless of whether it is mud , clay or any other type of soil , water can also be collected

As far as the water stored in the mountains is concerned , the tendency for it is either to continue moving as a runoff in the form of streams or falls on the surface of the mountains or to penetrate the ground . The water can also stay in the leaves of trees and other plants for a short duration of time . There is also the possibility for the water to solidify in the freezing temperatures in the higher regions of the mountains . After a certain stretch of time , these frozen waters in the form of mountain ice will eventually melt and return to its liquid state , running down the mountain sides in the form of small streams or perhaps big waterfalls . The water from rainfall can also gather in manmade structures such as dams and open wells . In general , the water that precipitates in the form of...