The Water Cycle

when a gas turns into a liquid

• freezing

• matter

• precipitation

• condensation

any form of water that falls from the sky ---rain, snow, sleet, hail

• condensation

• precipitation

• gases

• melting

the process in which water pools in large bodies

• condensation

• solids

• accumulation

• condensing

anything that has mass and takes up space

• solids

• freezing

• matter

• condensing

do not change their shape

• solids

• matter

• matter

• freezing

do not have their own shape, they take the shape of their container

• freezing

• gases

• liquids

• evaporation

have no shape of their own and are usually invisible

• gases

• liquid

• solids

• melting

when a solid turns into a liquid

• matter

• gases

• freezing

• melting

when a liquid turns into a solid

• freezing

• gases

• evaporation

• condensing

when a liquid turns into a gas

• solids

• freezing

• melting

• evaporation