1. Water Cycle

2. Water Cycle
Continuous movement of water from the ocean to the atmosphere to the land and back to the ocean

3. Impermeable Rock
Water cannot penetrate into this layer of rock

4. Permeable Rock
Rock that allows liquids or gases to pass through it

5. Aquifer
A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater

6. Infiltration
The downward movement of water through pores and other spaces in soil due to gravity

7. Runoff
Precipitation that flows overland into streams and rivers

8. Evaporation When a liquid at the surface changes to a gas
Arrow always going up

9. Condensation
Gas changes into a liquid
Arrow always in the clouds

10. Precipitation
Rain, Snow, Sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds onto Earth’s land and oceans
Arrow always points down

11. Transpiration
The evaporation of water from plants through pores in their leaves
Arrow always points up from plants

12. Water Table
(also called Groundwater Table) upper level of an underground surface in which the soil or rocks are permanently saturated w/ water.