Vocabulary
Evaporation from trees
transpiration
What is the first step of the water cycle?
Evaporation
What drives the water cycle?
The sun
What happens when clouds become heavy?
Precipitation/It rains
When you look outside and it is raining, the water falling down is in what stage of the water cycle?
Precipitation
Name a process of the water cycle that return water to the oceans.
Precipitation/Run Off
As time goes by, and water goes through the water cycle again and again, the amount of water on Earth _______.
Stays the same
When the Sun heats up the puddle of water in your backyard and turns it into water vapor, this process is known as _______
Evaporation
Humidity is the amount of _________ in the air.
Water vapor
When you see clouds forming in the sky, the water above you is forming droplets in what stage of the water cycle?
Condensation
Once water makes it all the way through the water cycle, the water ________.
Starts the cycle over again
What are the four types of participation?
rain, hail, sleet, snow
These form when droplets of condensed water collect and remain suspended in the air.
Clouds
In the water cycle what is it called when water goes up through a plant and is turned into a vapor?
Evaporation
The water cycle is the Earth's way of _______.
Recycling water
Increased evaporation will eventually lead to what?
Increased Precipitation
Water that soaks through the soil and is stored below the surface is called
Groundwater
In the correct order, name the steps of the water cycle.
1. Evaporation
2. Condensation
3. Precipitation
4. Collection
Correctly Label the water cycle diagram.
1. evaporation
2. transpiration
3. condensation
4.precipation
5. runoff
6. Infiltration
In the collection stage of the water cycle, water finds itself back in oceans, streams, and rivers by way of ________.
Gravity