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Precipation
Condensation
Evaporation
Collection
Miscellaneous
100
Water that falls to Earth as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
What is precipitation?
100

When water droplets come together changing state from a gas to a liquid in the cooler sky and form clouds.

What is condensation?

100
When the sun's heat causes water droplets to travel from Earth back up into the sky as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100

The collection of water droplets in bodies of water, like oceans, ponds, lakes and puddles.

What is collection or accumulation?

100
The amount of the Earth's surface that is covered by water.
What is 3/4?
200
When precipitation flows into rivers, lakes, and oceans.
What is runoff?
200

Water in the form of gas.

What is water vapor?

200
The main heat source that causes evaporation to occur.
What is the sun?
200
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
200
All living things need this in order to stay alive and healthy?
What is water?
300

When the precipitation seeps into the ground.

What is infiltration?

300

The layer of air that surrounds Earth.

What is the atmosphere?

300
With the sun's energy, plants mix water with carbon dioxide, a gas in the air, to make food for themselves.
What is photosynthesis?
300
The largest bodies of water that cover the Earth's surface.
What are oceans?
300
The constant movement of water from Earth to the atmosphere and back again.
What is the water cycle?
400
Water that is taken up by the roots of a plant, and goes into the atmosphere through the leaves.
What is transpiration?
400
Drops of water that form on blades of grass when the night air turns cold.
What is dew?
400
A way to measure the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
400
A huge, heavy mass of slowly moving ice.
What is a glacier?
400
To take in or soak up water.
What is absorption?
500

After precipitation, whare, in general, are the two places the water can end up?

What is evaporate or runoff and then evaporate into the atmosphere or seep into the ground and eventually recharge aquifers by replenishing the groundwater?

500
A mass of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that form in the air.
What is a cloud?
500
When water turns from a solid into a liquid, because heat is added.
What is melting?
500
A floating chunk of ice that breaks off from a glacier or ice cap.
What is an iceberg?
500
A place where water is treated to make it safe to drink.
What is a water treatment plant?