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The Water Cycle educational diagram showing how water moves through the environment.

Diagram illustrating the water cycle with labeled stages including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection, featuring a sun, clouds, rivers, and trees.

Diagram illustrating the water cycle with labeled stages including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection, featuring a sun, clouds, rivers, and trees.

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Show Answer Key & Explanations Step-by-step solution for: Explain the Water Cycle in your Own Words Worksheet - Twinkl
Let’s solve this step by step.

We are looking at a diagram of “The Water Cycle” with blank boxes that need to be filled using the word bank:

Word Bank:
- evaporation
- transpiration
- warm air rises
- condensation
- precipitation
- surface run-off
- infiltration
- ground water store

Also, there is a short description on the right side that explains each part — we can use that to match the words to the blanks.

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Step 1: Look at the first blank near the sun and ocean.

The text says:
> “Water from the sea (or a similar body) is warmed by the Sun.”
Then it says:
> “When the Sun heats the surface of a water collection, some of the water changes state to water vapour... This is known as evaporation.”

So the first box (near the sun over the ocean) = evaporation

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Step 2: Next blank — above the trees on land.

Text says:
> “At the same time, water moves through plants and leaves. They expel water into the air through the stomata. This is known as transpiration.”

So the box above the trees = transpiration

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Step 3: Arrow going up from both ocean and land → next blank.

Text says:
> “During the evaporation stage, warm air rises in the water vapours too.”

So the arrow pointing upward = warm air rises

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Step 4: Clouds forming — next blank.

Text says:
> “Condensation happens as the warm air cools down so the water vapour condenses back into a liquid, appearing as water droplets...”

So the cloud area = condensation

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Step 5: Rain falling from clouds — next blank.

Text says:
> “Precipitation happens as the water droplets fall from the clouds together as rain.”

So rain falling = precipitation

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Step 6: Water flowing over land into river — next blank.

Text says:
> “When the water falls to the ground it will move across the land as surface run-off and often runs into the soil to become groundwater…”

So water running over ground = surface run-off

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Step 7: Water soaking into ground — next blank.

Text says:
> “…often runs into the soil to become groundwater (a process called infiltration)”

So water going into soil = infiltration

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Step 8: Underground water storage — last blank.

Text says:
> “Ground water store (or similar body) warmed by the sun to recycle the water cycle.”

So underground layer = ground water store

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Now let’s list them in order as they appear in the diagram (top to bottom, left to right):

1. Over ocean, near sun → evaporation
2. Above trees → transpiration
3. Rising arrow → warm air rises
4. In clouds → condensation
5. Falling rain → precipitation
6. Flowing over land → surface run-off
7. Soaking into ground → infiltration
8. Underground → ground water store

All matched correctly with the descriptions.

Final Answer:
evaporation
transpiration
warm air rises
condensation
precipitation
surface run-off
infiltration
ground water store
Parent Tip: Review the logic above to help your child master the concept of cycles worksheet answers.
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