– Evaporation in the water cycle

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If water boils on the stove at approximately 100 degrees celsius, then how or why does water in the ocean/seas/lakes etc evaporate when it surely doesn’t reach anywhere near this temperature?

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Boils =/= evaporation

Water changes state from liquid to gas when it gets enoguht energy. As surface of sea is constanlyy bombarded by energy from sun, some of particles will change state.

100° degrees is temperature where you will see buubles in your vatch of water, but water will start to evaporating a lot sooner.

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