Water Cycle

The process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil

• run off

• infiltration

• condensation

• precipitation

Water falling in a liquid or solid state from the atmosphere to earth

• run off

• infiltration

• evaporation

• precipitation

the conversion of a liquid of a liquid into a vapor usually through the application of heat energy

• condensation

• evaporation

• precipitation

• infiltration

precipitation that flows over land to surface streams, rivers, and lakes

• infiltration

• run off

• condensation

• evaporation

process by which a water vapor becomes a liquid ; the opposite of evaporation

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

• infiltration

a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit ground water

• infiltration

• run off

• aquifer

• precipitation

The Water cycle is also called...

• biogeochemical cycle

• geological cycle

• hydrological cycle

• nitrogen cycle

Do molecules move faster when boiling or when at room temperature?

• faster

• slower

• no change

Molecules need a place to " stick" in order for condensation to happen. This is called

• condensation

• adhesion

• precipitation

• infiltration

What supplies the energy to begin the water cycle?

• the moon

• the sun

• the sky

• venus