Water Cycle Processes
Body's of Water and storage
Water Flow and Movement
100

What is the process where the liquid water turns into water vapor due to heat?

What Is Evaporation?

100

What is the vast body of saltwater that covers more than 70% of Earth's Surface.

What is Ocean?

100

What is Precipitation or meltwater that flows over the land surface rather than soaking into the soil?

What Is Runoff?

200

What is the process where water vapor cools down and turns back into liquid water?

What is Condensation?

200

What is a large body of water surround by land?

What Is Lake?

200

What is surface runoff produced from melting snow or ice?

What is Snow/ice melt?

300

It is any form of liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back down to Earth's surface?

What is Precipitation? 

300

What are large, natural streams flowing water that move across the land toward an ocean, sea, lake, or a river?

What Is River?

300

What is the slow, continuous movement of water underground through soil, sand, and porous rock layers?

What Is Ground Water Flow?

400

What is the process where plants absorb water through their roots and then release it as water vapor into the air though their leaves?

What Is Transpiration?

400

What are flowing bodies of surface waterfall contained within a bed and banks?

What is a stream?

400

What is water that is held underground in the soil, rock crevices, and in porous rock layers called aquifers?

What is Ground Water Storage?

500

What is the slow flow or movement of water through small spaces, pores, or cracks in soil, rock, or other porous materials?

What Is Seepage?

500

What is the layer of gases surrounding the Earth that is held in place by gravity?

What is Atmosphere?

500

What are natural points where underground water flows up out of the ground onto Earth's Surface?

What is Spring?

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