A piece of ice in a frozen river will melt into a liquid as the surrounding temperature increases because warmth is added to the particles, causing them to vibrate more quickly. The particles begin to spread out and slide over each other as liquid water.
Vaporization (Liquid to Gas)
The liquid water continues to gain thermal energy as the temperature increases. The particles vibrate more quickly and move into free space. Then they evaporate as water vapor.
Condensation (Gas to Liquid)
The water vapor could gather in a cloud, and cool temperatures could cause its particles to lose thermal energy, move closer together and vibrate slower. Then the vapor could condense into liquid and fall as rain.
Freezing/Crystallization (Liquid to Solid)
Sublimation (Solid to Gas)
Deposition (Gas to Solid)
After falling as rain, the particles could pack together and freeze. This is because they will have lost energy and begun to slow down after the temperature began to drop at night.
Through the process of sublimation, the particles could gain thermal energy from their surroundings and vibrate fast enough to transform directly from a solid to a gas.
Through the process of deposition, the particles could lose thermal energy and slow down considerably if the temperature dropped drastically. This would cause them to change directly from a gas to a solid.