In your own words, explain what happens in the water cycle

First, rain will have to occur. The lake and surfaces will have water in them, after that it will a while for the surface to evaporate into water vapour, after that the water vapour will condense into water droplets and when the clouds are too heavy because of too much water droplets in them, it will start to rain again and this cycle will keep going on continuously.

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