Collection
Collection
Latest update to this document: 12 February 2003
When water falls back to the earth as one of the many forms of precipitaion it gets collected in oceans, lakes, rivers, or land. If it ends up on land it may be soaked up and become part of the ground water that plants and animals use or it will run off into a ocean, lake, or river. This picture above is an example of a local stillwater collection site. Precipitation is collected through runoff or rain.
This is the ending stage of The Water Cycle; the water on the ground is what gets evaporated into the sky by the sun and condenses into clouds.
Click on Evaporation for the next step.
Key Stages of The Water Cycle
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Melissa Teasley: mteasley@nmu.edu