The Water Cycle

3. A geological formation containing ground water that can be used to supply wells or springs.
4. runoff The process of snow and ice melting into surface water and moving across the soil surface into streams.
6. The science dealing with the occurrence, circulation, distribution, and properties of the waters of the earth and its atmosphere.
11. To cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid.
12. The downward movement of water from the land surface into the soil or porous rock.
13. Occurs when the sun heats water up and it becomes vapor in the air.
16. The means to which water is carried through the plants from the roots.
18. It is usually formed on the side of a hill, or below the local water table.
19. This includes wetlands, lakes, ponds, and large rivers that hold freshwater.

1. cycle The change and movement of the Earth’s water from liquid to vapor to solid.Down
2. An area of land where all the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place.
4. The star that is the source of light and heat for the solar system and powers the water cycle.
5. The vertical and lateral movements of water through spaces between soil and rock layers.
7. The opposite of evaporation; it occurs when air cools and the vapor collects into liquid form.
8. Condensation falling onto land in the form of rain, sleet, hail, snow, and mist.
9. Contain 96.5% of the world’s water supply and comprises over 70% of the Earth’s surface.
10. The water that exists for long periods below the Earth’s surface.
14. The journey water takes as it passes from the land
15. A visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
17. runoff This defines precipitation that travels over the soil surface to the nearest stream channel.