Water Cycle
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- Q1the continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back, passing through living the living and nonliving parts of the environmentwater cycle30s
- Q2The process when the sun heats up the water in rivers, lakes, and oceans and turns it into vapor or steam.evaporation30s
- Q3Water vapor cools as it rises in the air. As it reaches the dew point, the water vapor will condense around dust particles and form clouds.-condensation30s
- Q4forms of water such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail that fall from clouds and reach Earth surfaceprecipitation30s
- Q5process where rain water soaks into the ground, through the soil and underlying rock layersinfiltration30s
- Q6water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the groundrunoff30s
- Q7the process by which plants release water vapor through their leavestranspiration30s
- Q8also called storage; the water that falls from the sky is stored in rivers, lakes and oceansaccumulation30s
- Q9the source of all energy; it drives the water cyclesun30s
- Q10The branch of geology that studies water on the earth and in the atmosphere: its distribution and uses and conservationhydrology30s
- Q11Zone that includes all waters on Earth (including oceans, lakes, rivers, stream, water vapor)hydrosphere30s
- Q12the invisible, gaseous (gas) form of waterwater vapor30s
- Q13The sum of evaporation and plant transpiration from the Earth's land and ocean surface to the atmosphereevapotranspiration30s
