The Water Cycle

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Across
  1. 3. – the change of water from one state to another as it moves between Earth’s surfaces to the atmosphere
  2. 7. – the process of water changing from a liquid to water vapor by adding heat (e.g., weather - water in oceans evaporating into the air)
  3. 8. – the process of water changing from water vapor to a liquid by loss of heat (e.g., weather - water vapor forming clouds)
  4. 9. – water that falls to the Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail
Down
  1. 1. – the air that surrounds the Earth; it is made of a mixture of gasses
  2. 2. – day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere in an area; weather has short-term variations (e.g., weather can change from minute-to-minute, day-to-day, or week-to-week)
  3. 4. – general pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time [30 years or more (many decades)]
  4. 5. – acting in such a way so to have an effect on something else
  5. 6. – a huge ball of gasses around which the Earth and other planets of the solar system revolve; the Sun is a star that provides Earth with most of its light and thermal energy