Rain forms through a process called the water cycle, which involves the following steps:
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Evaporation: The sun's heat causes water from various sources like oceans, lakes, and rivers to turn into vapor and rise into the atmosphere.
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Condensation: As the warm water vapor rises, it cools down and undergoes condensation, forming tiny water droplets or ice crystals around dust particles in the air.
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Cloud Formation: The water droplets and ice crystals gather together to form clouds. These clouds can be high up in the atmosphere (cirrus clouds), thick and puffy (cumulus clouds), or spread out and gray (stratus clouds).
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Precipitation: When the cloud particles become too heavy to stay suspended in the air, precipitation occurs. Precipitation can include rain, snow, sleet, or hail, depending on the temperature conditions.
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Rain: Water droplets in the cloud merge and grow larger until they are heavy enough to fall as raindrops.
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Snow: When the temperature is below freezing, the water vapor directly turns into ice crystals, forming snowflakes.
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Sleet: In some cases, raindrops pass through a layer of freezing air on their way down, causing them to partially freeze and form ice pellets.
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Hail: In thunderstorm clouds, strong updrafts carry raindrops upward into extremely cold regions of the cloud, where they freeze and accumulate layers of ice, growing larger and eventually falling as hailstones.
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Collection: The precipitation that reaches the Earth's surface collects in various ways. It can flow into rivers, lakes, and oceans, replenish groundwater, or be absorbed by plants and trees.
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Runoff: Excess precipitation that cannot be absorbed into the ground forms runoff, which flows over the land surface and eventually returns to rivers, lakes, and oceans, continuing the cycle.
The water cycle is a continuous process, with water evaporating, condensing, and precipitating again, ensuring the constant circulation of water on Earth.
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