Question

Describe the water cycle process starting from an afternoon thunderstorm. There are many different variations that could happen.

Answer 1

Explanation:

The water cycle basically involves five steps:

• evaporation and transpiration ⇄
• condensation, ⇄
• precipitation, ⇄
• runoff, ⇄
• infiltration ⇄

So when a thunderstorm occurs it helps in completing the precipitation process by enabling the release of water vapor stored up in the atmosphere to fall on the ground as rain.

After this, the water runoffs to the surface of the ground, on plants, into rocks, rivers, and lakes.

Next, the Infiltration process enables the water on the ground surface to enter the soil some of which becomes groundwater.

The cycle begins again as the evaporation and transpiration process 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 into the atmosphere.

It then condenses and falls back as precipitation again.