2nd Grade VocabularyPart Six

The Water Cycle

Water Cycle

The way water keeps moving from the air to the land and back again

Evaporation

To change from a liquid into a gas

Water Vapor

Water in a gas state

CondensationTo change froma gas to a liquid

Condensation

Precipitation The water that

falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

Run - offThe flow of waterinto streams,lakes, and oceans

Rain GaugeA tool used to collect and measure the amount of rain thatfalls.

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