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Sure, let's talk about the Water Cycle! It's like a magical journey that water takes all around us.

1. Evaporation: This is the first step in the water cycle. Imagine when you boil water in a pot. It begins to disappear or "evaporate" and turns into steam, right? Well, the same thing happens outside. When the sun shines and starts to heat up the water in our oceans, seas, rivers or lakes, it turns into a mist or vapor and goes up into the sky.

2. Condensation: Now that the water vapor is up in the sky, it starts to cool down and change back into tiny droplets of water. This process is called "condensation". It's just like when your glass of cold lemonade starts to sweat on a hot day. The tiny droplets of water in the sky come together and form clouds.

3. Precipitation: When the water droplets in the clouds get too heavy and can't hold on anymore, they fall back down to the ground as rain, snow, sleet or hail. This is called "precipitation". Sometimes, the water falls onto land, and sometimes it falls back into the oceans, seas, rivers, or lakes.

4. Collection: The water that falls back onto the land will either be taken up by plants, or flow down into rivers and streams, and finally into the oceans, where it can start the whole journey over again! This is "collection".

And that, my little explorers, is the magical journey of the water cycle!