The Water Cycle Vocabulary

Liquid water that falls back to the Earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

• vapor
• condensation
• precipitation
• evaporation

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The continual movement of water between land, ocean, and the air.

• vapor
• water vapor
• water cycle
• precipitation 

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The gaseous form of water; produced when water evaporates.

• precipitation
• evaporation
• water vapor
• condensation 

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The process in which matter changes from a liquid to a gas.

• vapor
• condensation
• evaporation
• transpiration 

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The draining away of water from the land’s surface into bodies of water. (examples: streams, rivers, lakes, oceans)

• precipitation 
• evaporation
• run-off
• groundwater 

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Water stored below Earth s surface soil and rock layers. (Water stored underground, not in a body of water)

• run-off
• groundwater
• evaporation
• transpiration

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To turn from a gas into a liquid. 

• vapor
• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation

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____________ is any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface

• snow
• precipitation
• rain 
• sleet

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What kind of precipitation is formed when water falls from the clouds and lands on the ground as liquid water?

• Hail
• Sleet
• Rain
• Snow

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Pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds.

• Rain

• Sleet

• Snow

• Hail

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