1. Mrs. Tweedie April 2006 Vocabulary The Water Cycle

2. Without water there could be no life on Earth. Plants and animals need water to live.

3. Groundwater is fresh water under the Earth’s surface.

4. An estuary (ES-tyoo-air-ee) is a place where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water from the ocean.

5. Evaporation is the changing of a liquid to gas.

6. Condensation is the changing of a gas to a liquid.

7. Precipitation is water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

8. The water cycle is the movement of water from Earth’s surface into the air and back to the surface again.