Explanation:
The water cycle basically involves five steps:
- evaporation and transpiration ⇄
- condensation, ⇄
- precipitation, ⇄
- runoff, ⇄
- infiltration ⇄
So when a <u>thunderstorm </u>occurs it <em>helps in completing the precipitation process </em>by enabling the release of water vapor stored up in the atmosphere to fall on the ground as rain.
After this, the water <em>runoffs </em><em>to the surface of the ground, on plants, into rocks, rivers, and lakes.</em>
Next, the <em>Infiltration process</em> enables the water on the ground surface to enter the soil some of which becomes groundwater.
The cycle begins again as the<em> </em><em>evaporation and transpiration</em> <em>process </em>begins, where the groundwater as a result of heat from the sun is taken back into the atmosphere, while water in plants by means of transpiration goes back <em>into the atmosphere</em>.
It then <em>condenses </em>and falls back as precipitation again.
