Water Cycle Vocabulary

The changes to water when it evaporates into the air, condenses into clouds, and then precipitates back down to Earth's surface

• water cycle
• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation

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Physical change in matter from a liquid to a gas (the Sun drives this process in the water cycle).

• accumulation
• precipitation
• condensation
• evaporation

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Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds in the sky.

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation
• accumulation

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collection of water such as oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams

• condensation
• precipitation
• accumulation
• runoff

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The movements of land water (rivers, lakes, and streams) to the oceans. (example: water moves to a stream after falling on a field)

• precipitation
• accumulation
• runoff
• transpiration

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The evaporation of water into the atmosphere from the leaves and stems of plants.

• accumulation
• runoff
• transpiration
• precipitation

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sun

• water held underground in soil or rock.
• water that falls from clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
• the path water takes, and the changes it goes through, as it cycles through the environment.
  
• thermal energy that drives the water cycle.

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hydrologic (water) cycle

• the path water takes, and the changes it goes through, as it cycles through the environment.

• the process where plants absorb water through the roots and then gives off water vapor through pores in their leaves.

• excess water, not absorbed by the soil, that flows downhill.

• the change of water from a liquid state to a gas state, due to an increase in temperature.

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runoff

• excess water, not absorbed by the soil, that flows downhill.
• water found above ground, on land.
• the change of water from a liquid state to a gas state, due to an increase in temperature.
  
• water held underground in soil or rock.

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ground water

• water that falls from clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
• excess water, not absorbed by the soil, that flows downhill.
  
• water found above ground, on land.
• water held underground in soil or rock.

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