The Water Cycle

The process that turns water into gas

• transpiration

• evaporation

• condensation

• infiltration

Water that is held in rock, underground

• groundwater

• throughflow

• precipation

• infiltration

When rain water soaks down into the ground

• throughflow

• infiltration

• interception

• transpiration

Water drops that fall to Earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• infiltration

The process that turns water vapour into water

• gas

• condensation

• transpiration

• evaporation

The process by which water runs over the ground into rivers

• surface runoff

• throughflow

• percolation

• infiltration

The process by which precipitation is stopped from reaching the ground surface by the presence of trees and other plants

• inflitration

• groundwater flow

• transpiration

• interception

The movement of water up plants and its subsequent loss as water vapour from their leaves

• interception

• transpiration

• infiltration

• precipitation

There is a fixed amount of water on Earth that neither increases nor decreases.

• True

• False

Humans need water for domestic, industrial and agricultural purposes.

• True

• False