Caption: "Hi there! I'm Drip, a water drop, and I'm about to embark on an incredible adventure through the water cycle!"

Drip (thinking): "I wonder where I'll start my journey? Ah, I see a beautiful lake!"

Caption: "I begin my journey in a calm and peaceful lake."

Drip: "This place is fantastic! The sun's warmth is already giving me energy!"

Caption: "The sun's radiant energy warms me up."

Drip: "I feel something strange happening. Is this evaporation? The sun is turning me into a gas!"

Drip: "Wow! I'm soaring high in the sky now! I can see the whole world from up here!"

Caption: "I'm evaporating and turning into an invisible vapor."

Drip: "Look at all the fluffy clouds around me! I'm not alone! We're like a big family!"

Caption: "I join other water vapor to form clouds."

Caption: "Condensation starts to occur within the cloud (Marcolli et al., 2021)."

Drip: "It's getting colder in here. The water vapor is turning back into liquid droplets. We're forming clouds within clouds!"

Caption: "The cloud becomes heavy, and precipitation occurs."

Drip: "Weee! I'm falling as a raindrop! Time to make a splash!"

Caption: "I have reached the ground as precipitation."

Drip: "Splash! That was an exhilarating ride!

Caption: "I seep into the ground and become part of the groundwater."

Drip: "I'm infiltrating the soil. It's cool down here! This is where I can replenish the underground reservoirs."

Caption: "Plant roots absorb water through transpiration (Fricke, 2019)."

Drip: "Hello, plants! I'm here to help you grow! Through transpiration, I travel from the roots to the leaves."