Answer:
1. evaporation
2. condensation
3. precipitation
4. infiltration
5. runoff
Explanation:
Heat from the Sun causes water to evaporate from oceans, lakes and streams. Evaporation occurs when liquid water on Earth’s surface turns into water vapor in our atmosphere. Warm water vapor rises up through Earth’s atmosphere. As the water vapor rises higher and higher, the cool air of the atmosphere causes the water vapor to turn back into liquid water, creating clouds. This process is called condensation. When a cloud becomes full of liquid water, it falls from the sky as rain or snow—also known as precipitation. Infiltration is the process by which precipitation or water soaks into subsurface soils and moves into rocks through cracks and pore spaces. Depending on how saturated the ground is, the water can continue downwards to replenish water tables and aquifers. Runoff is precipitation that did not get (infiltrated) absorbed into the soil or did not evaporate, and therefore, made its way from the ground surface into places that water collect. Rain and snow then fill lakes and streams, and the process starts all over again.
