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Science
Chapter 9, Lesson 1
Term | Definition |
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Water Cycle | the movement of water from the surface of Earth and into the air and back again. |
Sun's Energy | this is what drives the water cycle |
The Heating and Cooling of Water | is what makes the water cycle change form |
Water Vapor | this is the gas form of water, it is in the air. As is rises into the air it becomes cooler |
Precipitation | water that falls back to Earth, can be rain, snow, sleet or hail. It soaks into the ground, evaporates, or runs off |
Evaporation | the process by which a liquid changes into a gas |
Condensation | the process by which a gas changes into a liquid, caused by the cooling of water vapor |
Heat | this causes water to evaporate into water vapor |
Places that Water Evaporates From | oceans, lakes, rivers, soil, puddles and even from your skin as sweat |
Clouds | condensed water that cools and collects on dust particles. Tiny droplets of water join together and make larger drops and eventually the droplets become too heavy and they fall in the form of precipitation |
Groundwater | precipitation that soaks into the ground through small holes and then flows deeper through rock. It is used for drinking water when wells are dug. |
Runoff | rain that is not soaked into the ground and flows into creeks and streams, and from there flows into rivers and then into the oceans. |
Lotic | moving bodies of water such as creeks, streams and rivers. They flow into other bodies of water |
Lentic | still bodies of water such as ponds and oceans. They do not flow into another body of water. |