How did water get into the lakes, rivers, and oceans?
2007-12-02 13:04:09 · 26 answers · asked by ♥Wendy♥ 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
i don't know how hydrogen got here. but oxygen came out of algae
2007-12-02 13:05:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Rain, and gravity, and variations in surface topography. And time. It is that simple.
I suppose I could have just said god, but no god that can create the universe is so totally lame that he messed it up and has to keep doing things over and over again through all of time (like putting water in lakes) because he didn't have the foresight to plan a universe where this would happen of its own accord. A god of such poor ability wouldn't even be able to get accredited as an engineer, never mind as supreme being.
EDIT. Sorry, I just get tired of people saying God did it whenever they don't know or don't understand, and I lashed out.
2007-12-02 22:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by busterwasmycat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Originally it condensed out of the atmosphere as the very hot young earth cooled. It cycles from the oceans by evaporation, which condenses as clouds and falls as rain to fill rivers and lakes
2007-12-02 21:08:12 · answer #3 · answered by Vermin 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
rain falls. the trees prevent soil erosion and water from running over the ground surface. The water seeps through underground and stored as an underground water. The opening of the underground water is called a spring and it flows to the rivers. The tributeries joint the main river from the confluence and flow to the river mouth and end up flowing into the ocean.
and why does this happen?
the answer is nature.and why does nature works that way?
the answer is GOD
2007-12-02 21:10:29 · answer #4 · answered by ciciwahyu 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Just because there is a God doesn't mean there isn't a scientific explanation as well.
The water on Earth is though to have initially come from comet impacts. Comets are largely ice and when they impacted Earth, the ice melted and became water and water vapour. After that, Earth began its own water cycle of evaporation and precipitation as the atmosphere began to form as well.
Glaciers didn't come along until MUCH MUCH later. Early Earth was a very hot place.
2007-12-02 21:27:08 · answer #5 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with the people that say GOD but there is more-GOD made the earth and water and everything but then when the land pangea separated some of the land broke off and water flowed in to the lower areas,and some water flowd up and errupted from the ground out of heat from the earths core!
2007-12-02 21:10:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
during the ice age im guessing. than wen everything melted rivers and lakes stayed consistant with rainfall and hurricanes and storms like that. god could have had alot to do with it 2
2007-12-02 21:07:48 · answer #7 · answered by miz 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how did shores and riverbeds get next to lakes, rivers, and oceans?
tell me i didn't just blow your mind.
2007-12-02 21:07:00 · answer #8 · answered by Tom S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i guess with mountains pushing upwards, bodies of water became trapped... then rain and snow melt, ran down the hills and those too became trapped by the surrounding highlands.i guess...
2007-12-02 21:15:07 · answer #9 · answered by Chocolate_Bunny 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Rain and snowfall. Precipitation, in other words.
2007-12-02 21:06:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
glaciers melted, then, just follow the water cycle
2007-12-02 21:06:24 · answer #11 · answered by lovemykids! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋