Water Cycle

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What effect does the sun have on surface water?

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It causes it to evaporate

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When water vapor is cooled and forms droplets of liquid water

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Condensation

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Why does precipitation occur?

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The droplets are too heavy for the air to hold.

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When water turns into a gas

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evaporation

Front

What is water that flows in rivers and streams into the oceans and lakes?

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runoff

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What is precipitation?

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Any form of water that falls from the sky

Front

The process when plants release water vapor from their leaves is called _____________.

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transpiration

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What step of the water cycle does this picture show?

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Evaporation

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The water cycle has

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no beginning and no end.

Front

What source of energy evaporates the most water from Earth’s surface?

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the sun