The Water Cycle Word Search
Play a The Water Cycle word search free online. We built the 12-word list around the terms and ideas of a school subject, then scattered it across a 15×15 grid — horizontal, vertical and diagonal. Find them all to clear the board.
Words to find: EVAPORATION, CONDENSATION, PRECIPITATION, COLLECTION, INFILTRATION, RUNOFF, GROUNDWATER, SURFACE, CLOUD, RAINDROP, SNOWFLAKE, GLOBE.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
The Water Cycle word list, defined
- EVAPORATION /ɪˌvæpəˈreɪʃən/ · noun
- The process by which a liquid, especially water, changes into vapor or gas, typically through the application of heat; also used figuratively to mean the gradual disappearance or fading away of something. Related: vaporization, vanishing, disappearance, dissipation.
- CONDENSATION /ˌkɒndɛnˈseɪʃən/ · noun
- The process by which a gas or vapour turns into a liquid, especially water droplets forming on a cool surface; also, the act of compressing text or other material into a shorter form. Related: liquefaction, precipitation, compression, abridgement.
- PRECIPITATION /prɪˌsɪpɪˈteɪʃən/ · noun
- Precipitation is water in the form of rain, snow, sleet, hail, or other droplets or ice particles that falls from clouds to the Earth's surface. The term can also refer more generally to the process of such water falling or to the formation of a solid from a solution. Related: rainfall, rain, snowfall, downpour.
- COLLECTION /kəˈlɛkʃən/ · noun
- A group of things or people gathered together, or the act or process of gathering them. Related: assemblage, accumulation, compilation, gathering.
- INFILTRATION /ˌɪnfɪˈtreɪʃən/ · noun
- The act of entering secretly or without authorization, especially in order to influence an organization, group, or place. It can also refer to the gradual passage or penetration of a substance into another material. Related: penetration, intrusion, inroad, entry.
- RUNOFF /ˈrʌnˌɔːf/ · noun
- Water or another liquid that flows off land or a surface rather than soaking into it. The term can also refer to an extra contest or election held to determine a result that was not settled in the first vote. Related: drainage, overflow, discharge, surplus.
- GROUNDWATER /ˈɡraʊndwɔːtər/ · noun
- Water found beneath the Earth's surface in soil, sediment, and permeable rock. It is an important source of drinking water, irrigation, and natural springs. Related: underground water, subsurface water, subterranean water.
- SURFACE UK: /ˈsɜːfɪs/; US: /ˈsɝːfɪs/ · noun, verb, adjective
- The outer part or boundary of an object; also, the outer layer or material covering something. As a verb, it means to bring something to the surface or into view; as an adjective, it refers to the outer layer or to something visible rather than deeper or hidden. Related: exterior, face, outer layer, coating.
- CLOUD /klaʊd/ · noun
- A visible mass of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere; more broadly, any hazy or indistinct mass, whether literal or figurative. Related: mass, bank, veil, haze.
- RAINDROP /ˈreɪndrɒp/ · noun
- A raindrop is a single drop of water falling from a cloud, especially as part of rain. The word is also used for an individual bead of rainwater on a surface. Related: drop of rain, rain bead, rainwater bead.
- SNOWFLAKE /ˈsnoʊfleɪk/ · noun
- A small, individual crystal of ice that forms from water vapor in the atmosphere and falls as snow. By extension, the word can refer figuratively to a person considered especially sensitive, delicate, or politically fragile. Related: snow crystal, ice crystal, flake, individualist.
- GLOBE /ɡləʊb/ (British); /ɡloʊb/ (American) · noun and verb
- A globe is a spherical representation of Earth, a celestial sphere, or, figuratively, the world or a particular world. As a verb, to globe means to shape into a sphere or to make or become known throughout the world. Related: world, earth, sphere, orb.
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