Water Cycle Study Guide

When the sun heats up bodies of water and the liquid water turns into a gas known as water vapor.

• Evaporation
• Transpiration
• Precipitation
• Condensation

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When water vapor cools back down and turns back into liquid droplets forming clouds.

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Sublimation

• Condensation

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When the clouds get too heavy and water falls back to Earth as rain, sleet, snow, hail, or ice.

• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Transpiration

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Water that runs back into the oceans and accumulates there

• Collection

• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Condensation

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Water within rocks and soil underground

• Surface water
• Rainwater
• Groundwater
• Ocean water

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Water that flows over land instead of soaking into the ground.

• Rainwater absorption
• Groundwater flow
• Runoff

• Soil moisture retention

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The evaporation of water off of plants

• Condensation
• Photosynthesis
• Filtration
• Transpiration

the path water takes as it moves through oceans, land, and air. Water is constantly moving through a cycle of states of matter using evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.

• The water cycle

• The precipitation system
• The evaporation cycle
• The hydrological process

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