The Water Cycle

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Across
  1. 3. What occurs when snow or ice changes directly into water vapor without becoming water?
  2. 5. Rainwater gets absorbed into the ground through this process.
  3. 9. The water cycle is important because it moves _______ around and provides plants, animals, and humans with water.
  4. 10. When the precipitation collects in the oceans, lakes, rivers, etc. It's often soaked into the ground and stored as groundwater.
  5. 11. The __________ in the U.S. no longer reaches the ocean at times because humans have altered it so much.
  6. 12. The ____________ shows the continuous movement of water in various states throughout the earth and its atmosphere.
  7. 13. H2O never _________ changes into another substance.
  8. 15. What is the gaseous state of water?
Down
  1. 1. What is the change of state from a gas to a liquid?
  2. 2. When heat causes water’s bonds to break, changing it from a liquid to a gas.
  3. 4. ________________ is expected to additionally affect water supply and demand.
  4. 6. We change the flow of water using __________.
  5. 7. The product of condensation of vapor that falls back to earth due to gravitational pulls.
  6. 8. What is the solid state of water?
  7. 14. Water changes between phases but always remains ___?