Science Vocabulary

Collection is

• water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.

• when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into water vapor or steam.

• when water falls to the earth as precipitation, it collects in the oceans, lakes, rivers, or other bodies of water

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What is states of matter?

• There are four common states of matter (or phases) in the universe: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.

• the excess water that flows over land when the soil below it is flooded.

• non-living

• living

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Evaporation is

• a form of water that falls to the Earth’s surface when so much water has condensed that the drops become heavier than the surrounding air.

• water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds

• when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into water vapor or steam.

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Water vapor is

• rain

• sleet

• snow

• gaseous state of water.

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Condensation is

• water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds

• when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into water vapor or steam.

• a form of water that falls to the Earth’s surface when so much water has condensed that the drops become heavier than the surrounding air.

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The water cycle is

• the evaporation of water from plants.

• water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.

• defined as the way that water moves between being water vapor to liquid water and then back to water vapor.

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Precipitation is

• a form of water that falls to the Earth’s surface when so much water has condensed that the drops become heavier than the surrounding air.

• rain

• sleet

• All of the above

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Transpiration is

• the evaporation of water from plants.

• when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into water vapor or steam.

• the excess water that flows over land when the soil below it is flooded.

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Runoff is

• the process of changing something from a solid into a liquid (like ice into liquid water)

• a gaseous state of water

• the excess water that flows over land when the soil below it is flooded.

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What is melting?

• when a liquid substance becomes solid (freezing point is 0 degrees Celsius or 32 degrees Fahrenheit)

• when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or oceans and turns it into water vapor or steam.

• the process of changing something from a solid into a liquid (like ice into liquid water)

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