Answer:
the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
No it’s not alive it just has adhesion as a property. It doesn’t have cells that make it living, and it doesn’t make or eat food to survive. And the force from the waves make it roll up on the beach, not because it’s alive.