Water Cycle

____ describes how water evaporates from the surface of the earth, rises into the atmosphere, cools and condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again to the surface as precipitation.

• Carbon Cycle
• Life Cycle
• Water Cycle
• Nitrogen Cycle

_____ is the process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas or vapor.

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Sublimation
• Freezing

_____ is the process by which water vapor in the air is changed into liquid water.

• Melting
• Freezing
• Condensation
• Vaporization

_____ is the sum of evaporation and transpiration.

• Transpiration
• Evapotranspiration
• Vaporization
• Evaporation

_____is the conversion between the solid and the gaseous phases of matter, with no intermediate liquid stage.

• Deposition
• Sublimation
• Evaporation
• Condensation

_____ is water, from rain, snowmelt, or other sources, that flows over the land surface.

• Groundwater flow
• Streamflow
• Infiltration
• Surface Runoff

_____ is the amount of water flowing in a river.

• Surface runoff
• Groundwater flow
• Streamflow
• Seepage

_____ is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.

• Runoff
• Infiltration
• Groundwater flow
• Streamflow

_____ is a part of streamflow  that has infiltrated the ground.

• Groundwater flow
• Streamflow
• Infiltration
• Evaporation

_____ is surface runoff produced from melting snow.

• Runoff
• Infiltration
• Transpiration
• Snowmelt