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What is a Water Cycle ?

Water Cycle is a naturally occurring Hydrological cycle by which water is recycled back to the earth in the form of rain to help sustain life on the planet because water is the main ingredient without which life does not exist on this planet.

 "The water cycle describes how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation. The water falling on land collects in rivers and lakes, soil, and porous layers of rock, and much of it flows back into the oceans, where it will once more evaporate. The cycling of water in and out of the atmosphere is a significant aspect of the weather patterns on Earth." - https://pmm.nasa.gov/education/water-cycle

 Hence the Water cycle essentially tell us the evaporation of water in the gaseous form (water vapor) into the atmosphere and due to temperature changes condenses and falls back on earth in the form of rain thus sustaining life on earth. 




Picture Credits - By John Evans and Howard Periman, USGS - http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26818355

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