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The Water Cycle
What is The Water Cycle and what is involved in it?
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Science
7th Grade
02/01/2011

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Transportation
Definition
When water soaks into the soil, then gets absorbed in the roots of a plant, next the water travels through the plant, finally the water evaporates from the leaf and into the atmosphere.
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Surface Runoff
Definition
Water moves downhill into streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes.
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Water Shed
Definition
The land area from which water drains to a given point.
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Acid Rain
Definition
Factories, cars, and homes put pollution in the air that mixes with the clouds causing rain to be acidic.
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Precipitation
Definition
Water moves from the clouds back down to the surface of the Earth.
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Heavy Water
Definition
When droplets of water in clouds get to big and heavy, they fall.
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Dew
Definition
Water droplets condense from the air onto cool surfaces.
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Fog
Definition
A cloud at or near the Earth's surface.
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Water Cycle
Definition
Water moves continuously through the earth and atmosphere.
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Condensation/Clouds
Definition
As gas water cools it turns into liquid water to form clouds.
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