The continuous process by which water moves through living and nonliving parts of the environment is called the water cycle. There is no beginning or end.
The gathering of precipitation in one place
When water vapor cools off, it changes from a gas to a liquid.
Water that is in the ground
occurs when water is given off by plants.
Water that moves over earths surface
This powers the water cycle
Animals that exhale also release water vapor into the atmosphere.
Water seeps into the ground
occurs when condensed water becomes too heavy to stay in the atmosphere, so it comes back down to the earth’s surface.
occurs when water changes from the liquid to the gas state.
evaporation
Runoff
Groundwater
Precipitation
Accumulation
The sun
Condensation
Respiration
Transpiration
Infiltration
The Water Cycle
