Water Cycle Vocabulary

The star at the center of the solar system that supplies heat and light to Earth; its enormous gravity keeps the solar system in orbit

• Water Cycle

• Sun

• Run off

• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The constant movement of water through the land, air, oceans, and living things

• runoff

• precipitation

• sun

• water cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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

• precipitation

• runoff

• water cycle

• sun

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The movement of water on a surface to areas of lower elevation

• precipitation

• Sun

• runoff

• Water Cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What is needed to do work or cause change

• water cycle

• evaporation

• condensation

• energy

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Change in state of Matter from a liquid to a vapor or gas

• runoff

• energy

• Evaporation

• condensation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Change in state of matter from a gas to a liquid

• Condensation

• evaporation

• precipitation

• water cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4