The Hydrosphere and Water Cycle

How water changes and moves around Earth, on land and in the air.

• Run-Off

• Carbon Cycle

• Water Cycle

• Weather

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Water that falls from the sky.

Examples include: rain, snow, sleet, and hail.

• Transpiration

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Condensation

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The movement of water vapor from a plant to the atmosphere.

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

• Condensation

• Precipitation

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The warming of pools of water, causing liquid to become vapor/gas.

• Condensation

• Percolation

• Evaporation

• Transpiration

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Cooling of water in the atmosphere, changing gas/vapor to liquid drops.

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

• Condensation

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Rain that does not go into the soil but travels to the ocean.

• Lakes

• Snow

• Run-off

• Sit-on

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All of the water on Earth.

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

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When a solid becomes a liquid.

• Freezing

• Dissolving

• Evaporating

• Melting

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When a liquid becomes a solid.

• Melting

• Evaporating

• Freezing

• Dissolving

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When a solid disappears into a liquid; like mixing sugar into coffee.

• Freezing

• Melting

• Evaporating

• Dissolving

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