Water Cycle Vocab

Describes the movement of water through our atmosphere.

• Water cycle
• Rain cycle
• Cloud cycle
• Wind cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water is changed from a liquid to a gas; causing energy to be added.

• Evaporation
• Freezing
• Melting
• Condensation

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

When water vapor starts to cool down and form tiny water particles in the sky

• condensation
• precipitation
• sublimation
• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When water particles fall from the sky and can be in various forms such as rain, snow, sleet or hail. 

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Sunshine

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

When rain hits the land or snow melts, it flows downhill over the landscape.

• Gravity

• Groundwater

• Runoff

• Ocean

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

the state of the atmosphere at a place and time

• climate
• weather
• temperature
• geography

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A form of precipitation that falls from the clouds when the weather is ABOVE freezing weather

• sleet
• hail
• snow
• rain

Rain that has frozen between leaving the cloud and reaching the ground

• Rain

• Sleet

• Hail

• Snow

Forms in clouds when water vapor condenses and then freezes to form balls of ice; they are too heavy to stay in the cloud.

• Rain

• Sleet

• Hail

• Snow

Made of ice particles; Ice crystals fall to the Earth through air that is at or below freezing temperatures.

• Rain

• Sleet

• Snow

• Hail

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5