NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Liquid water flows across land (runoff), into the ground (infiltration and percolation), and through the ground (groundwater). Groundwater moves into plants (plant uptake) and evaporates from plants into the atmosphere (transpiration). Solid ice and snow can turn directly into gas (sublimation).

Detailed explanation-2: -When cooled more, it condenses into droplets that fall to earth as precipitation, as rain, snow, sleet or hail. Precipitation takes one of two paths once on the ground. It runs over the surface into rivers, lakes or the ocean, and becomes surface water, or it soaks into the earth and becomes groundwater.

Detailed explanation-3: -Precipitation comes as rain, snow, sleet, ice pellets, dew, hail, and other types, but we will call it all “rain” from here on. When too much rain falls onto the ground to conveniently infiltrate the soil, part of it “runs off". Gravity pulls it directly downhill.

Detailed explanation-4: -Precipitation falls to the ground as snow and rain. It eventually evaporates and rises back into the atmosphere as a gas. In clouds, it turns back into liquid or solid water, and it falls to Earth again. People rely on precipitation for fresh water to drink, bathe, and irrigate crops for food.