Water Cycle Vocabulary

The changes to water when it evaporates into the air, condenses into clouds, and then precipitates back down to Earth's surface

• water cycle
• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation

Physical change in matter from a liquid to a gas

• accumulation
• precipitation
• condensation
• evaporation

Physical change in matter from a gas to a liquid

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipication
• accumulation

Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from clouds in the sky.

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation
• accumulation

collection of water such as oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams

• condensation
• precipitation
• accumulation
• runoff

The movements of land water (rivers, lakes, and streams) to the oceans.

• precipitation
• accumulation
• runoff
• transpiration

The evaporation of water into the atmosphere from the leaves and stems of plants.

• accumulation
• runoff
• transpiration
• precipitation

One of five large bodies of salt water that covers 75% of Earth.

• water cycle
• ocean
• runoff
• interact

A kind of action that occurs as two or more objects have an effect upon one another.

• evaporation
• condensation
• runoff
• interact