Freshwater/Water Cycle Vocabulary

6. clouds form as water vapor cools.
7. the contiguous process by which water moves through the living and nonliving parts of the environment. Sun is the energy source.
8. plants release water to air through leaves.
9. a river and all its tributaries, or small streams together with the watershed, the land area that supplies water to the system.
10. type of hot spring which begins to rise through narrow passages being forced out by heated gases and steam from below.
11. most takes place over the ocean.
12. water droplets in clouds become heavy and fall back to Earth.

1. form when water collects in hollows and low-lying areas of land.
2. area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year. Three common types are marshes, swamps, and bogs.
3. water that fills the spaces in soil and rock layers.
4. place where groundwater bubbles or flows out of cracks in the rock.
5. huge mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over land formed in areas where more snow falls each year than melts.