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The Water Cycle

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The water cycle moves water between atmosphere, land, and ocean through evaporation, transpiration, condensation, and precipitation, transporting the dissolved nutrients other cycles depend on.

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Transpiration from forest vegetation returns water vapor to the atmosphere, feeding downwind precipitation.

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The water cycle moves water, not nutrients directly — nutrients move as a secondary effect of water's movement through soil and runoff.

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