Water Cycle

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What is another name for the water cycle?

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Hydrologic Cycle

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Where is 96.5% of the Earth's water the primary pathway into the water cycle?

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Ocean

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The process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas.

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evaporation

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The sun provides what for the evaporation process?

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energy source

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The ________ it is the faster water changes into water vapor.

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hotter

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The process of a solid changing into water vapor without melting

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sublimation

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Plants return groundwater to the atmosphere through which process?

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transpiration

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The process in which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water is called:

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condensation

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When water does not get absorbed into soil or evaporate into the atmosphere it becomes __________.

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runoff

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What moves groundwater into places where it collects, like ponds and rivers? Options: sunlight, evaporation, gravity, sewers.

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gravity

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