The water cycle is also called the Hydrolic Cycle. It is the process by which water circulates between Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and land.
It involves the following:
Water storage
evaporation
transpiration




hold 96.5% of Earth’s water.
This is the primary pathway into the water cycle.
Oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers provide % of the moisture in our atmosphere through evaporation.

The process by which water changes from a to a .
It is the primary pathway that water moved from the liquid state back into the water cycle as .
(energy) from the sun is necessary for evaporation to occur.
Energy bonds that hold water molecules together.
Boiling Point:
Freezing Point:
is the process of snow and ice changing into water vapor without first melting into water.
is water lost to the atmosphere when the ground surface and transpiration of groundwater by plants through leaves.

Superhighway used to transport water around the globe.
Involves and .

The process in which water vapor in the air changed into .
The loss of allows water molecules to bond,
Forms or .

Is water released from clouds in the form of:





Provides the delivery system of water to the Earth.

These are examples of water locked up in its present state of matter for a relatively long period of time.
This involves and .

This is that did not get absorbed into soil, or evaporate.
and provides runoff when they melt.
Water moved by makes its way into places that collect water.





This is the downward process of moving water from the into soil or poros rock.
is large amounts of water stored in the ground.
is another name for groundwater.

This is the area of land where all the water that dallas in it and grains off of, goes into the same place.
It can be as small as a footprint or as large as all the land that drains water into the .