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 on the ground surface enters the soil.

• Runoff
• Infiltration
• Groundwater flow
• Streamflow

_____ is surface runoff produced from melting snow.

• Runoff
• Infiltration
• Transpiration
• Snowmelt

_____ is the process by which a substance changes from the solid phase to the liquid phase.

• Freezing
• Melting
• Condensation
• Evaporation

_____ is the process through which a substance changes from a liquid to a solid.

• Melting
• Freezing
• Condensation
• Vaporization

_____ is the change in the state of matter from the gas phase to the liquid phase.

• Melting
• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Freezing

Matter is anything that occupies space and has ____.

• gas
• mass
• volume
• shape

Which is not a type of precipitation?

• Rain
• Sleet
• Ocean
• Snow