Water Cycle Vocabulary

Phase change from a gas (vapor) to a liquid

• infiltration

• condensation

• runoff

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Water passes through plants and out of the pores of the leaves into the atmosphere

• precipitation

• infiltration

• transpiration

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water on the ground's surface enters the soil

• infiltration

• water cycle

• precipitation

• runoff

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water in the atmosphere falls to the Earth's surface

• condensation

• evaporation

• water cycle

• precipitation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

water that does not absorb into the soil or evaporate; it moves across Earth's surface to a reservoir

• runoff

• infiltration

• precipitation

• transpiration

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

phase change from a liquid to a gas when water enters the atmosphere

• runoff

• evaporation

• percolation

• condensation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

the closed system in which water moves through different parts of the Earth and the atmosphere

• runoff

• precipitation

• infiltration

• water cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

movement of water downward through the soil

• water cycle

• reservoir

• percolation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4