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THE WATER CYCLE (P.12)
The earth’s supply of water is stable and is used over and over again. Most
of the water (98 percent) is present in oceans, lakes, and streams. Of the
remaining 2 percent, some is frozen in polar ice and glaciers, some is found in the
soil, some is in the atmosphere as water vapour, and some is in the bodies of
living organisms.
Sunshine evaporates water from the oceans, lakes, and streams, from the
moist soil surfaces, and from the bodies of living organisms, drawing the water
back up into the atmosphere, from which it falls again as rain. This constant
movement of water from the earth into the atmosphere and back again is known
as the water cycle. The water cycle is driven by solar energy.
Some of the water that falls on the land percolates down through the soil
until it reaches a zone of saturation. In the zone of saturation, all holes and cracks
in the rock are filled with water. Below the zone of saturation is solid rock through
which the water cannot penetrate. The upper surface of this zone of saturation is
known as the water table.
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