water cycle

noun

1. Also called: hydrologic cycle. the circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration

water cycle

1. See hydrologic cycle

Example Sentences

Rainfall moves slowly through the water cycle, needing to soak deep through the soil and way down into the groundwater stores.

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“The rapid water cycle change that the planet has experienced over the last decade has unleashed a wave of rapid drying.”

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There are little bits all through that kind of hint at a water cycle.

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As a result, the natural water cycle is sped up and intensified.

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But Miocene-style hydrological or water cycles favor high altitude wind events, like cyclones and hurricanes, that transport heat and moisture evaporating from the tropics to higher latitudes, or California’s intense seasonal rainstorms.

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