Water cycle or hydrologic cycle is the circulation of water that never stops from the

atmosphere to the earth and back into the atmosphere through condensation,
precipitation, evaporation and transpiration.
Warm sea water by sunlight is the key process of the hydrologic cycle can run
continuously. Berevaporasi water, then fall as precipitation in the form of rain, snow,
hail, sleet and snow (sleet), light rain or fog.
On the way to earth some precipitation may berevaporasi back up or straight down which
is then intercepted by plants before it reaches the ground. After reaching land, the
hydrologic cycle continues to move continuously in three different ways:
• Evaporation / transpiration - water of the sea, on land, in rivers, in plants, etc.. will then
evaporate into the air (atmosphere) and then will be a cloud. In the state of saturated
water vapor (clouds) will go to spots which in turn would decrease water (precipitation)
in the form of rain, snow, ice.
• Infiltration / percolation into the soil - water moves into the soil through cracks and
pores of soil and rock into groundwater. Water can move due to capillary action or water
can move vertically or horizontally below the soil surface until the water re-entering the
surface water system.
• Surface Water - Water moving over the soil surface close to main stream and lake; more
sloping land and fewer and fewer of the pores of the soil, the greater the surface flow.
The flow of the soil surface can be seen usually in urban areas. The rivers join each other
and form a major river that carries all the surface water around the watershed to the sea.
Surface water, either flowing or stagnant (lakes, reservoirs, swamps), and partly below
the surface water will be collected and flow to form the river and ended at the sea. The
process of water traveling in the mainland took place in the hydrological cycle
components that form the watershed system (DAS). The amount of water on earth as a
whole is relatively fixed, the change is the form and place.