Water Cycle

Precipitation that travels over a landscape is

As the sea water gets colder and saltier its density increases and it starts to _____ towards the poles.

________________________ is the movement of water through Earth's surface. As the water soaks into the ground, it moves between the soil and rocks.

The ______________ is an imaginary line that divides the earth into halves.

As water is evaporated by the sun and lifted into the atmosphere, ___________ pulls the water back to Earth in the form of precipitation.

Plants lose water vapor through their leaves in a process called

when water or wind moves broken pieces of land, soil, and rock over the surface of the planet.

Over time, wind and water help to break down soil, rocks, and land. This is known as

As water gradually cools it sinks down to the ___________ of Earth.

The energy from the ____ powers the water cycle.

The sun heats up water stored on Earth, which ___________ and rises in the atmosphere.

The warmest air and water on Earth can be found along the

The majority of water on Earth is being __________in the forms of Rivers, Lakes, Oceans Groundwater Ice Caps

____________ energy is the energy given off by the Sun.

Large, slow moving masses of snow and ice are known as

_______________________ is the opposite of evaporation and is the process by which a vapor becomes a liquid.

Earth is constantly rotating, the rotation affects currents. The air currents are pushed to the right, in the direction of rotation. This is the ________

A measurement of how much mass and space an object takes up

Eventually, clouds reach a point where they are unable to hold any more water vapor and they release it in the form of

True/False: Warmer air rises, cooler air sinks

True/False: The movement of global air current is also the movement of water through the atmosphere and water cycle

The movement of water throughout Earth and its journey between liquid, gas and solid states.

A way that heat travels in fluids (liquids/gasses)

The motion of warm and cool water across the planet is known as the ______________