Name: _______________________________________________ Date: ________________________________

Class: ________________________________

Bill Nye Water Cycle Video

Notes and Questions
1. Almost all the water on earth is the ____________ water that was on the earth when it formed.

2. When you drink a glass of water, you could be drinking what was once dinosaur
___________________.

3. Water can be a ______________________, like ice. A ____________________ like you drink. It can
also be a ____________________, or vapor.

4. But maybe the wildest thing is that water is always moving all around the earth in something called
the water _____________________.

5. Its what scientists call the ________________________________ cycle.

6. Whenever water goes back into the air, we say that it _________________________.

7. When the vapor turns back to a liquid, it is called __________________________.

8. __________________________is when water is falling from the sky.

9. You may have heard of _________________________. They are tiny pieces of stuff. Tiny particles. So
tiny that you cant even see them with a microscope.

10. The key is that not all molecules are going at the same _____________________. Some of them are
still going fast enough to turn into a vapor even when most of them are a liquid.

11. The glass gets foggy because the water vapor in the air sticks to this _____________________
surface and it turns into liquid like these little drops.

12. The surface of my bubble helmet of science turns _____________________. Thats because water
vapor, which was floating around in the air, sticks to the cold surface in little liquid water droplets.

13. This thing that happens is called _____________________. Its the same thing that happens to
people who wear glasses when they come inside on a cold day.

14. Condensation is sort of the opposite of evaporation. Instead of liquid water gaining energy and
becoming a vapor, water vapor _____________________ energy and becomes a liquid. Little tiny
droplets that stick to cold surfaces.

15. In order for condensation to happen, water has to have some place to ______________ to.

16. What did Bill need to add to the container to create a cloud? _____________________________

17. The energy for our own water cycle on earth comes from the power of the
_____________________.

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