A liquid turning into a gas is evaporation. It is how water gets from the surface of the Earth to the atmosphere.
Latent heat is a form of energy held in the evaporated water when it evaporates and cools.
Evaporation plays a significant role in the energy exchange that results in atmospheric motion, affecting weather and climate in the Earth-atmosphere system.
The particles with the highest kinetic energy are the first to evaporate from a liquid.
Most of the air's moisture evaporates from rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans. Water at the surface of the Earth evaporates into water vapor, which rises into the sky and forms clouds, which eventually release water back onto Earth as precipitation.