What are We Going to Learn

Today?

The importance of the Water Cycle

The 4 steps of the Water Cycle

The Water Cycle is constantly repeated

Importance of the Water Cycle

How often Do you think

each day do you can live How much
you use How much
longer of your body
water? of the Earth
without do you think
do you think
• Name some water or is made of
things that are is water?
made with
without water?
water food?
 Importance of the Water Cycle
• Water is used for several things like showers,
drinking water, cooking, and cleaning.
• It is possible to live longer with food. You can
survive 8 to 14 days without water and 7 to 8
weeks without food.
• The earth is 72% water.
• The body is up to 60% water.
• When the sun Evaporation
heats up water
and turns it into
vapor or steam
• The water vapor
or steam leaves
the river, lake or
ocean and goes
into the air
 Condensation
• Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes
back into liquid, forming clouds
• You can see the same sort of thing at home
– Pour a glass of cold water on a hot day. Water
forms on the outside of the glass. That water
actually came from the air. Water vapor in the
warm air, turns back into liquid when it touches
the cold glass
 Collection
• When water falls back to Earth as precipitation,
it may fall back into the oceans, lakes or rivers
or it may end up on land
– When water ends up on land it can become
a part of groundwater or stream back to
oceans or lakes
 Precipitation

• Occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold
it anymore
• The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in 4 different
forms
 Continuous Cycle

• This cycle is constantly repeating itself

 Wrapping up the Water Cycle

• The cycle of evaporation and condensation

that controls the distribution of the Earth’s
water as it evaporates from bodies of water
(lakes, rivers, or streams), condenses,
precipitates, and returns to those bodies of
water
 What are the four steps, in order?
1. Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation,
Collection
2. Condensation, Precipitation, Evaporation,
Collection
3. Precipitation, Collection, Condensation,
Evaporation
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 Question 2

 What Happens during Condensation?

1. the sun heats up water and turns it into vapor or
steam
2. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the
earth in 4 different forms
3. Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back
into liquid, forming clouds
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* What happens during Collection?
1. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to
the earth in 4 different forms
2. Water, after falling back to Earth as
precipitation, falls back into the oceans,
lakes, rivers or land.
3. Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes
back into liquid, forming clouds

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Question 4
 What happens during Precipitation?
1. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the
earth in 4 different forms
2. Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back
into liquid, forming clouds
3. When the sun heats up water and turns it into vapor
or steam
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 Works Cited
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WaterCycleWebQuest.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/

Information from:
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