____________ is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air. When a liquid turns into a gas.
_______________ occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.
The _____ energy heats water, causing the water to evaporate into a gas called water vapor.
Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called _____________. When a gas turns into a liquid.
_________________ is the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves. This process also gives evaporation a bit of a hand in getting the water vapor back up into the air.
As the water pours down (in various form), it leads to ________. This is the process where water runs over the surface of earth. When the snow melts into water it also leads to ________. As water runs over the ground it displaces the top soil with it and moves the minerals along with the stream. It combines to form channels, rivers and ends up into lakes, seas and oceans.
______________: the continuous circulation of water in the Earth-atmosphere system.
The water cycle is a phenomenon where water moves through the three phases: 1. __________ 2. __________ 3. __________
The _______ stores the largest amount of the water on Earth’s surface. Large amounts of water from the ________ also evaporate into the atmosphere.
__________ pulls rain and snow down to Earth from the atmosphere through a process called precipitation. __________ also pulls water from elevated areas such as mountains and hills down into lakes, oceans, and water reservoirs.
