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The Water Cycle
Vocabulary words for the Water cylce.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Water cycle | The circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evaporation. |
| Water vapor | The dispersion in the air of water molecules, especially as produced by evaporation at ambient temperatures rather than by boiling. |
| Evaporate | To change from a liquid or solid state into vapor |
| Rain | Precipitation from clouds in the form of drops of water, formed by the condensation of water vapor in the atmosphere |
| Condensation | anything that has condensed from a vapor. such as the water droplets on the outside of a cold glass on a hot day. |