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With the water cycle - known scientifically as

the hydrological cycle - is called the continuous


Evaporation is a physical process
exchange of water within the hydrosphere,
consisting of the slow and gradual "Year of National Dialogue and
between the atmosphere, surface water and
groundwater and living organisms. Water
passage of a liquid state into a Reconciliation"
gaseous state after having acquired
constantly changes its position from one to
enough energy to overcome the
SOIL AND WATER
another part of the water cycle, basically
involving the following physical processes: surface tension.
• evaporation of the oceans and other bodies of
water and transpiration of living beings (animals
and plants) into the atmosphere,
• precipitation, caused by the condensation of
water vapor, and which can adapt to multiple
shapes,
• runoff, or movement of surface water into
is a substance whose molecule is
It is called soil to the superficial part of the
made up of two atoms of hydrogen
earth's crust, biologically active, that
and one of oxygen (H2O). It is comes from the disintegration or physical
essential for the survival of all known and chemical alteration of the rocks and
the residues of the activities of living
forms of life. The term water
beings that settle on it.
generally refers to the substance in
its liquid state, although it may be in
its solid form called ice, and in its
gaseous form called vapor
Water is a substance chemically formulated as
H2O, ie a water molecule is composed of two
hydrogen atoms covalently bonded to an
oxygen atom. It was Henry Cavendish who
discovered in 1781 that water is a compound
substance and not an element, as had been
thought since antiquity. The results of this
Water covers 71% of the surface of the discovery were developed by Antoine Laurent
Earth's crust.2 It is mainly located in the de Lavoisier, disclosing that the water was
oceans, where 96.5% of the total water, formed by oxygen and hydrogen. In 1804, the
glaciers and shells are concentrated. Water French chemist Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and
is a common element of the solar system, in the German naturalist and geographer
recent discoveries. It may be found mainly Alexander von Humboldt demonstrated that
in the form of ice; in fact, it is the base the water was made up of two volumes of
material of comets and the steam that hydrogen for each volume of oxygen
makes up their tails.

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