Which process in the water cycle best explains how liquid water gathered dissolved minerals from Earth's surface and carried them into low-lying
basins that eventually formed the oceans?

the answer is yes, they are born/created, then they grow to their limit then produce offspring, then die.

well

explanation:

the darker peppered moth species were favored due to the fact that the industrial revolution had made all the nearby trees a darker color instead of white.

it is because according to the process , scientific inquiry is a process with many steps because each step occurs to the scientist and if you just skip a step there would be no steps to scientific inquiry.