Check out this informative website our friend Jenna shared with us. Water allows flowers to bloom and plants to grow and is essential to life on Earth. The water cycle is the cyclical movement of water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and surface runoff. Clouds store water in the atmosphere and periodically release the water back to Earth's surface. The water cycle regulates the amount of water present on the surface of Earth, thereby helping flowers to grow while mitigating droughts and floods.