Educational water cycle printables for kids, including labeling, drawing, and matching exercises.

Let’s solve the matching task from the bottom worksheet.

We need to match each word on the left with its correct definition on the right.

Here are the words:
- precipitation
- evaporation
- condensation
- runoff
- transpiration
- water cycle
- sun
- water vapor

And here are the definitions (in order as listed):

1. The process of liquid heating up and becoming a gas.
2. Shows the circulation and continuous movement of water around the world, oceans, atmosphere and land.
3. The process of gas cooling down and becoming a liquid.
4. The process of water being released from the leaves of a plant.
5. Moisture that falls from the clouds to the ground in the form of rain, snow, sleet or hail.
6. The source of heat energy for the Earth.
7. The flow of water occurring on the ground surface.
8. Water in the form of a gas.

Now let’s match them one by one:

→ “precipitation” = moisture that falls from clouds → matches #5
→ “evaporation” = liquid heating up and becoming a gas → matches #1
→ “condensation” = gas cooling down and becoming a liquid → matches #3
→ “runoff” = flow of water on ground surface → matches #7
→ “transpiration” = water released from plant leaves → matches #4
→ “water cycle” = circulation of water around the world → matches #2
→ “sun” = source of heat energy → matches #6
→ “water vapor” = water in the form of a gas → matches #8

Let’s double-check:

- precipitation → 5 ✔
- evaporation → 1 ✔
- condensation → 3 ✔
- runoff → 7 ✔
- transpiration → 4 ✔
- water cycle → 2 ✔
- sun → 6 ✔
- water vapor → 8 ✔

All matches make sense and fit the science of the water cycle.

Final Answer:
precipitation – 5
evaporation – 1
condensation – 3
runoff – 7
transpiration – 4
water cycle – 2
sun – 6
water vapor – 8