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What is the purpose of this model?
to illustrate how water travels from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back to Earth's surface again
to illustrate how some water is lost on Earth as some of it never returns to Earth's surface once it evaporates
to show how severe weather forms in the water cycle
to show how Earth's water formed billions of years ago
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Answer: to illustrate how water travels from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back to Earth's surface again.
Explanation: a water-cycle model shows processes like evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and infiltration and how water moves continuously between surface, air and groundwater. The other options are incorrect — the cycle doesn't show permanent loss of most evaporated water, it's not primarily a model of severe-weather formation, nor of how Earth's water originally formed.
Explanation: a water-cycle model shows processes like evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and infiltration and how water moves continuously between surface, air and groundwater. The other options are incorrect — the cycle doesn't show permanent loss of most evaporated water, it's not primarily a model of severe-weather formation, nor of how Earth's water originally formed.
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