While water does circulate from one place or state to another in the watercycle, the paths it can take aren't always the same.

How hot it is will change how quickly water molecules evaporate and are collected. If the water is in the form of ice molecule movement increases because of an increase in heat energy, water will change from solid to liquid to gas.

Every time the water changes state, (you know liquid, gas, solid) it usually moves from one location to another usually. Glaciers melt to pools which overflow to streams, where water may evaporate into the  atmosphere. 

Gravity is another thing that effects the ability of water to travel over, under, and above Earth’s surface. Because water has mass and is subject to gravitational force. Snow on mountaintops melts and follows the flow of gravity to the lowest point at a watershed. A watershed is an area of land that collects water to drain into a

bigger body of water.

Most of the time when you see water it is in it's liquid and vaopor forms, i.e. clouds, and well.... Water is seen flowing in streams and rivers and tumbling in ocean waves. Water travels slowly underground, seeping and filtering through particles of soil and pores within rocks. Although unseen, water’s most dramatic movements take place during its gaseous phase. Water is constantly evaporating, changing from a liquid to a gas. As a vapor, it can travel through the atmosphere over Earth’s surface. In fact, water vapor surrounds us all the time. Where it condenses and returns to Earth depends upon loss of heat energy, gravity, and the structure of Earth’s surface. is exposed to the air and the sun’s energy and is easily evaporated. This process is called transpiration. All these processes work together to move water around, through, and over Earth.