The Water CycleA Game

The Water Cycle

The water cycle is the circulation of the earth's water, in which water evaporates from the sea into the atmosphere, where it condenses and falls as rain or snow, returning to the sea by rivers or returning to the atmosphere by evaporation. Also called the hydrologic cycle.

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The Water Cycle

The earth has a limited amount of water.  That water keeps going around and around and around and around and (well, you get the idea) in what we call the "Water Cycle".This cycle is made up of a few main parts:•evaporation (and transpiration)•condensation•precipitation•collectionhttp://www.kidzone.ws/WATER/

EvaporationEvaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.http://www.kidzone.ws/WATER/

Condensation

Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation.http://www.kidzone.ws/WATER/

PrecipitationPrecipitation 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 the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.http://www.kidzone.ws/WATER/

Collection

When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land.  When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts all over again.http://www.kidzone.ws/WATER/

The Water Cycle

Go to http://www.brainpop.com/science/earthsystem/watercycle/ and watch the video. Use our school’s login and

password. After watching the video, click on “quiz”, then click on “printed quiz.” Take the

quiz and turn it in to your teacher. Next, you will take on the role of a drop of water.

The Water CycleYou will take on the roll of a drop of water traveling throughout the water cycle.

You will create a bracelet, using beads, to document your trip through the water cycle. Please get a piece of string from your teacher.

Follow the directions on each slide, adding beads accordingly.

You will only visit 10 slides, so your bracelet will only have 10 beads.

The Water Cycle

Where would you like to start?

Ocean Lake

River Glacier

Ocean

Put a dark blue bead on your bracelet.

You freeze and become part of a glacier.

You evaporate and become part of a cloud.

LakeAdd a green bead to your bracelet.

You evaporate and become part of a cloud.

River

You evaporate and become part of a cloud.

You flow to the ocean.

Add a purple bead to your bracelet.

Glacier

You evaporate and become part of a cloud.

You melt and become part of the ocean.

Add a black bead to your bracelet.

CloudAdd a white bead to your bracelet.

You fall to the earth as rain.

RainAdd a light blue bead to your bracelet.

You fall to the earth into a lake.

You fall to the earth into a river.

You fall to the earth into the ocean.

You are soaked up by the earth as ground water.

SnowPut a clear bead on your bracelet.

You melt and become part of a lake.

You melt and flow into a river.

You freeze and become part of a glacier.

You are soaked up by the earth as ground water.

ground waterAdd a brown bead to your bracelet.

You become part of an ocean.

You become part of a river.