<u>Explanation and Answer:</u>
Earth's water is always moving in a process called the water cycle. This process transfers water from
Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back again. First, the sun's energy makes water from oceans, lakes, and rivers by <u>Evaporating the water,</u> or change from a liquid to a gas called <u>Condensation
</u>, which rises into the atmosphere and cools.
As it cools, the gas begins to <u>Condense</u> to change back into a liquid, and form millions of tiny drops of <u>Vapor </u>and that water forms into clouds. Then the larger droplets of water fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hall, which are all forms of <u>Precipitation</u>
Finally, this water can seep into the ground or fall into a larger body of water. Eventually, the water evaporates again, and the cycle repeats itself.
In order to understand what the question was, I had to reformat and re-word some of the words to make it make sense, but I hope this clears up any confusion.
Evaporation - The process of existing water to go through to restart the water cycle, usually done in water that isn't moving, and is quickly done on heated water. An example of Evaporation is the steam from boiling water.
Vapor - Also known as water vapor, vapor is the steam you have when you take a hot shower, you see the fog on the mirror, but when you open the doors to the bathroom, you see the water vapor on the mirror disappear over time.
Condense - The act of compacting water molecules tighter when talking about the water cycle. It is basically the process of making water vapor into actual liquid water instead of a gas. In case you didn't know, there are 4 states of matter commonly agreed upon, they are plasma, gas, liquid, and solid. For water, there only exists 3 main types of existence. In this case, gas is really stretched out. Think of humidity, you can't see the humidity in the air, but you can feel it as the sun heats up the air. A similar thing is happening due to the spacing of the water molecules are farther apart when they are in a gaseous state rather than in a liquidous state.
Precipitation - also known as rain, this usually happens when water vapor, or gas, has made its way up into the atmosphere where it cools down, and starts to condense and begin to form water droplets. Once they form water droplets, they become liquid, allowing for gravity to kick in and forcing the water to fall down towards the center of the earth.
I hope my explanations of each word helped to make sense of why you should be putting certain words as your answer over other vocabulary words.
