Evaporation

Evaporation is the process where a liquid, in this case water, changes from a liquid state to a gas state. Although lower air pressure helps promote evaporation, temperature is the main factor. Water evaporates into the air from oceans, soil, animals, plants and fresh water sources. In a single day a large tree can move more then 1800 Liters of water from the ground, through its leaves and eventually into the air. Although not all organisms move the same amount, when you consider all the plants, animal and other things that are part of the water cycle you can see the amount of water given off is extremely large.

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