Water is traveling up a tree carrying nutrients. use the water cycle to explain how that water becomes groundwater.

Well, all i know is that when it rains, the water touches the ground, making the water go into the dirt, or soak it up.  Then, the water goes underground, when there are tree or plant roots.  The plant sucks up the water, and then the nutrients travel up the plant.

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