Earth Chapter 11 Vocabulary

the invisible, gaseous form of water

• water cycle

• groundwater

• water vapor

• precipitation

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water that fills the cracks and pores in underground soil and rock layers

• water vapor

• groundwater

• precipitation

• irrigation

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the continuous process by which water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back, passing through the living and nonliving parts of the environment

• precipitation

• transpiration

• groundwater

• water cycle

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the process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid, such as water, absorb enough energy to change to a gaseous state, such as water vapor

• evaporation

• precipitation

• transpiration

• water cycle

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the process by which plants release water vapor through their leaves

• precipitation

• transpiration

• evaporation

• irrigation

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forms of water such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail that fall from clouds and reach Earth’s surface

• irrigation

• percipitation

• transpiration

• evaporation

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the process of supplying water to areas of land to make them suitable from growing crops

• evaporation

• precipitation

• transpiration

• irrigation

the process by which plants use water, plus carbon dioxide and energy from the sun, to make food

• transpiration

• eutrophication

• photosynthesis

• evaporation

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the place where an organism lives and that provides the things it needs to survive

• habitat

• pore

• spring

• wetland

a stream that flows into a larger stream

• wetland

• habitat

• reservoir

• tributary