Animated Water Cycle Diagram

The sun rises begins to heat the oceans lakes and rivers and provide energy for plants to give off water vapor through transpiration.

Animated water cycle diagram. This flash animation takes viewers through four aspects of the water cycle. When these flows occur water is transformed through different states. That vapor rises into the atmosphere to form clouds which can be moved by the wind over long distances and eventually resulting in rain or snow. When land based glacial ice melts and runs off into the sea sea level rises.

This website presented by nasas global precipitation measurement gpm mission provides students and educators with resources to learn about earths water cycle weather and climate and the technology and societal applications of studying them. The water cycle is also known as the hydrologic cycle. Solid liquid and gaseous. When land based glacial ice forms sea level drops.

See a day in the life of the water cycle. Earths water is always in movement and is always changing states from liquid to vapor to ice and back again. A conceptual reservoir of water is not quite the same thing as a reservoir in which water is stored. Major reservoirs of water include oceans largest storage the atmosphere fresh water entities like lakes rivers swamps etc underground.

When too much water has condensed the water droplets in the clouds become too big and heavy for the air to hold them. And so they fall back down to earth as rain snow hail or sleet a process known as precipitation. How water goes up in sky comes back on earththe water cycle hydrologic cycle or the h2o cycle is the continuous cycle of water on above and below the surface of the earthin this animated. The water cycle also referred to as the hydrological cycle is a model which represents exchanges or flows between major water reservoirs on the earth.

Animated water cycle diagram for teachers and students.