Which stage of the water cycle involves water vapor in the air cooling and turning back into liquid to form droplets and clouds?
condensation
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Describe what happens during condensation.
Water vapor (water as a gas) cools and turns back into a liquid, forming droplets or clouds
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What is the source for the thermal energy that drives the water cycle? (Where does the energy come from?)
the Sun
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Which stage of the water cycle involves water seeping / soaking / moving down into the soil of the Earth?
infiltration
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Which form of energy makes the water cycle happen (by making liquid water evaporate into water vapor/gas)?
thermal energy/heat energy
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Clouds form during which stage of the water cycle?
condensation
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Which stage of the water cycle involves water moving over the surface of the land, running back into a larger water source?
runoff or surface runoff
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Which phase of the water cycle happens when a solid (like ice or "dry ice") change directly into a gas without going through a liquid state of matter?
sublimation
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Which stage in the water cycle happens when liquid water is heated enough that it changes into a gas (water vapor) and rises up into the atmosphere?
evaporation
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Describe what happens during precipitation.
water drops in the clouds fall back to earth as rain (or snow, sleet, hail, etc.)
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The weather on our planet happens because which substance gets moved around in the atmosphere through stages like evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
water
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Which water cycle stage happens when water gathers into large bodies of water like rivers, lakes, and oceans?
