SSC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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What is the best description of the hydrologic-cycle? (3C)
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Ice melts and increases the ocean volume causing flooding.
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Ice seeps into the ground doubling the size of aquifers.
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Water dries out in certain regions but floods in others.
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Water evaporates into the atmosphere and returns as precipitation.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The water cycle describes how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Precipitation is water that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth’s surface. Infiltration is precipitation that soaks into the soil. Runoff is precipitation that does not soak into the soil but instead moves on the Earth’s surface toward streams.
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