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| Water on Earth moves between the oceans and land through the processes of ____ and _____. |
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| Water on Earth moves between the oceans and land through the processes of evaporation and condensation. |
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| Hydrologic Cycle (Water Cycle) |
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| The movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to Earth's surface. |
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| Most of Earth's water is present as ____ water in the oceans, which cover most of the earth. |
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| Most of Earth's water is present as salt water in the oceans, which cover most of the earth. |
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| To gather or pile up, especially little by little. |
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| A flowing body of ice, formed in a region where snowfall exceeds melting. |
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| The top of the water surface in the saturated part of an aquifer. |
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| When liquid evaporates, it turns into ____ vapor in the air and can reappear as a ____ when cooled, or as a ____ if cooled below the freezing point of water. |
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| When liquid evaporates, it turns into water vapor in the air and can reappear as a liquid when cooled, or as a solid if cooled below the freezing point of water. |
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| Layer of air that surrounds the Earth. |
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| The change of state from a gas to a liquid. |
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| The change of state from a liquid to a gas. |
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| The temperature at which a liquid changes to a solid. |
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| The physical state of a compound that characteristically has no fixed size or shape. |
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| Water that is in the form of gas. |
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| ____ vapor in the air moves from one place to another, can form fog or clouds, which are tiny droplets of water or ice, and falls to Earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow. |
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| Water vapor in the air moves from one place to another, can form fog or clouds, which are tiny droplets of water or ice, and falls to Earth as rain, hail, sleet, or snow. |
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| Collection of water droplets, ice crystals, or mixtures of both. |
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| A cloud that touches Earth's surface. |
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| Precipitation in the form of small lumps or balls consisting of concentric layers of clear ice and compact snow. |
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| Water from the atmosphere that falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, hail, dew, etc. |
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| Water that is condensed from water vapor in the atmosphere and falls to earth in drops. |
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| Precipitation of partially frozen rain, or rain that freezes as it falls. |
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| Precipitation of water frozen high in the atmosphere that falls to earth as hexagonal crystals, appearing like soft, white flakes. |
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