Water Cycle Vocab

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Evaporation

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Changing from a liquid to a gas.

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Surface runoff

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Water from rain, snow melt, or other sources that flows over land and deposits into standing water.

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Precipitation

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Water that falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc.

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Condensation

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Changing from gas to liquid.

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Water Cycle

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Describes how water evaporates from the earth's surface, rises into the atmosphere, cools, condenses into rain or snow in clouds, and falls again as precipitation.

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Gas to liquid process

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Condensation

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Changing from liquid to gas

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evaporation

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Water from rain, snow melt, or other sources that flows over land into standing water.

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surface runoff

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Describes how water evaporates from the earth's surface, rises, cools, condenses into rain or snow, and falls as precipitation.

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water cycle

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Water that falls as rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc.

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precipitation