{"id":2289,"date":"2016-06-07T18:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geologyxwaymakerxmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2289"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:05:26","slug":"outcome-the-hydrologic-cycle","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/chapter\/outcome-the-hydrologic-cycle\/","title":{"raw":"Outcome: The Hydrologic Cycle","rendered":"Outcome: The Hydrologic Cycle"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>Describe and model processes involved throughout Earth\u2019s hydrologic cycle.<\/h2>\r\nWater is simply two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen bonded together. Despite its simplicity, water has remarkable properties. Water expands when it freezes, has high surface tension (because of the polar nature of the molecules, they tend to stick together), and others. Without water, life might not be able to exist on Earth and it certainly would not have the tremendous complexity and diversity that we see.\r\n\r\nThis section illustrates how water moves in, on, and above the Earth.\r\n<h2>What You\u2019ll Learn to Do<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Understand the basic outcomes of the hydrologic cycle.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Describe the processes involved the hydrologic cycle.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\r\nThe learning activities for this section include the following:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Reading: Phases of the Hydrologic Cycle<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Self Check: The Hydrologic Cycle<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","rendered":"<h2>Describe and model processes involved throughout Earth\u2019s hydrologic cycle.<\/h2>\n<p>Water is simply two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen bonded together. Despite its simplicity, water has remarkable properties. Water expands when it freezes, has high surface tension (because of the polar nature of the molecules, they tend to stick together), and others. Without water, life might not be able to exist on Earth and it certainly would not have the tremendous complexity and diversity that we see.<\/p>\n<p>This section illustrates how water moves in, on, and above the Earth.<\/p>\n<h2>What You\u2019ll Learn to Do<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the basic outcomes of the hydrologic cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Describe the processes involved the hydrologic cycle.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learning Activities<\/h3>\n<p>The learning activities for this section include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reading: Phases of the Hydrologic Cycle<\/li>\n<li>Self Check: The Hydrologic Cycle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2289\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li><strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Kimberly Schulte and Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>The Water Cycle. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: CK-12. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ck12.org\/student\/\">http:\/\/www.ck12.org\/student\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC: Attribution-NonCommercial<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":17,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"\",\"author\":\"Kimberly Schulte and Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"The Water Cycle\",\"author\":\"\",\"organization\":\"CK-12\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ck12.org\/student\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"c52d9382-2eef-40ae-803a-be739661c73c","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2289","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":31,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2289\/revisions\/2674"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/31"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2289\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/geo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}