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Gas
What is water in a state where it will freely expand to fill the whole container, having no fixed shape and no fixed volume?
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Evaporation
What is the changing of a liquid to a gas?
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Surface Runoff
The fifth stage of the Water Cycle. Water rolls off hills, mountains, or land and back into the nearest body of water.
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Stream
What is a small, narrow river.
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Liquid
What is a state of water that holds the shape of its container?
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Precipitation
What is it called when the water falls from the clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail?
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Evaporation
The first stage of the Water Cycle. Heat makes water rise from large bodies of water.
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River
What is a large stream of freshwater flowing in a channel to the ocean, a lake, or another such stream.
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Solid
What is a state of matter where molecules are packed tight and has a fixed shape and volume?
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The Water Cycle
What is the repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms?
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Condensation
The third stage of the Water Cycle. Water vapor forms into clouds.
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Ocean
What is a large body of saltwater?
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Vapor/Water Vapor/Vaporization
What is the term used when water is in the form of a gas?
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Condensation
What is it called when a gas turns into a liquid during the Water Cycle?
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Transpiration
The second stage of the water cycle. Water turns into vapor once it comes off of plants and trees.
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Steam
What is the vapor water is converted to when heated, forming a white mist of small water droplets in the air?
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Condensation
What is another word for water being in the form of a gas and changing into a liquid?
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Energy of Sunlight
The _________ of __________ causes most evaporation, sublimation, and melting.
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Precipitation
The fourth stage of the Water Cycle. Water falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
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Waterfall
What is a cascade of water falling from a height that forms when a river or stream flows over a steep incline?
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