Water Cycle Defintions

Question 1

Water is converted from its liquid form to its vapor form.

Answer 1

Evaporation

Question 2

When animals and people breathe, their lungs release water vapor to the atmosphere

Answer 2

Respiration

Question 3

Water evaporating from the surface of plant’s leaves

Answer 3

Transpiration

Question 4

Solid changes to a gas

Answer 4

Sublimation

Question 5

The process in which a gas cools and becomes a liquid

Answer 5

Condensation

Question 6

Water in the atmosphere that falls to earth as rain, sleet, snow, or hail

Answer 6

Precipitation

Question 7

Some precipitation soaks into the ground and becomes groundwater

Answer 7

Groundwater

Question 8

Runoff is water moving downhill. When precipitation falls, water runs off into streams and rivers. From there, water flows to lakes or the ocean

Answer 8

Runoff

Question 9

A slow moving body of ice on land

Answer 9

Glacier

Question 10

Underground water supply

Answer 10

Aquifer

Question 11

A human made place to collect and store water

Answer 11

Reservoir

Question 12

A swirling movement

Answer 12

Circulation

Question 13

pattern of rising and falling water in the ocean caused by gravity

Answer 13

Tides

Question 14

The amount of salt dissolved in water

Answer 14

Salinity