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This process involves water changing from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
This process involves water changing from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
This process involves water falling from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
This process involves water moving across the Earth's surface and into bodies of water.
What is runoff?
The is the origin of energy that drives the Water Cycle.
What is the Sun?
This is the gaseous form of water found in the atmosphere.
What is water vapor?
During condensation, water changes from a gas to this state of matter.
What is a liquid?
This type of precipitation occurs as liquid water droplets.
What is rain?
This term refers to the largest natural reservoir of freshwater on Earth found beneath the Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
This is one of the most important needs of animals, plants, and human life.
What is water?
When water evaporates, it transforms into this state of matter.
What is a gas?
Tiny water droplets in the atmosphere form this.
What are clouds?
This type of precipitation occurs as solid ice crystals.
What is snow?
This term refers to underground layers of water-bearing rock.
What is an aquifer?
This percentage represents the amount of freshwater available for human use on Earth.
What is less than 1%?
When water evaporates, it becomes an invisible gas in this part of the natural environment.
What is the atmosphere?
This type of condensation occurs on surfaces like grass and cars on cool mornings.
What is dew?
This type of precipitation is a mixture of rain and snow.
What is sleet?
This process involves the movement of water through soil layers.
What is infiltration?
This process involves plants releasing water vapor into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Evaporation primarily occurs in these two locations.
What are lakes and oceans?
This phenomenon occurs when water vapor changes directly into ice crystals without passing through the liquid phase.
What is deposition?
This type of precipitation consists of small ice pellets.
What are hail?
This term refers to the process of water moving vertically through soil layers.
What is percolation?
This term refers to the creation of artificial lakes or ponds.
What are reservoirs?