Water Cycle Vocabulary

Water changing from liquid to vapor (gas), usually due to the Sun's heat.

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

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Water changing from vapor (gas) to liquid, which can create clouds, fog, and dew.

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

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Plants exhaling water into atmosphere.

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Precipitation

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Water falling from the sky, due to gravity. Can be liquid or ice.

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

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excess water the flows over the Earth's surface because it could be be absorbed into the ground

• groundwater

• runoff

• condensation

• water cycle

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the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere where it changes from a liquid to a gas and back to a liquid form

• condensation

• evaporation

• water cycle

• groundwater

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water that is absorbed and stored beneath Earth's surface

• groudwater

• runoff

• precipitation

• soil water

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the process where water vapor cools and changes back to a liquid

• condensation

• evaporation

• water cycle

• precipitation

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the process where water is heated and changes into water vapor (a gas)

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• a liquid

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The layer of air that surrounds the earth.

• evaporation

• atmosphere

• the water cycle

• exosphere

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