The life cycle of the iceberg is also a key part of nature's water cycle. First, water in the ocean (including water from the small melted icebergs) evaporates and forms clouds. Some of those clouds are then carried by the wind over the country of Greenland where the cold air causes them to condense. This condensation causes the clouds to release the water as precipitation in the form of snow. This snow fall builds for thousands of years, and then compresses to form glaciers. Due to their immense weight the glaciers are then forced down to the ocean by gravity. As they reach the ocean pieces of the glacier break off and fall into the ocean, creating icebergs. The iceberg goes through its life cycle, travels through the ocean, grows smaller over time and then once again melts, starting the water cycle all over again.

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