5.8B Water Cycle Vocabulary

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What is groundwater?

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Water that infiltrates or gets absorbed by the ground, existing underground.

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What is the water cycle?

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The movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to the Earth's surface as liquid or solid.

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What is rain?

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A type of liquid precipitation that falls from the sky.

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What is surface water?

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Water that is found on the surface of the Earth's ground.

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What is snow?

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A type of solid precipitation that falls from the sky.

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What is evaporation?

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The process of water turning from liquid to vapor.

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What is condensation?

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The process of water vapor cooling and turning back into liquid.

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What is precipitation?

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Any form of water, liquid or solid, that falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface.

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What is transpiration?

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The process by which water is absorbed by plants and released as vapor into the atmosphere.

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What is accumulation?

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The collection of water in large amounts, such as in rivers, lakes, and oceans.