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Water Cycle

The document discusses the water cycle and provides key facts about Earth's water. It explains that water is always moving through a cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Most of Earth's water is salt water found in oceans, while freshwater makes up 3% and is located in ice caps, glaciers, lakes, rivers, and underground. The water cycle involves water evaporating from oceans and land into vapor, condensing into clouds, and falling back to Earth as precipitation through rain, snow, or hail. The precipitation then either runs off into bodies of water or seeps underground in a continuous, circulating process.

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Water Cycle

The document discusses the water cycle and provides key facts about Earth's water. It explains that water is always moving through a cycle of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Most of Earth's water is salt water found in oceans, while freshwater makes up 3% and is located in ice caps, glaciers, lakes, rivers, and underground. The water cycle involves water evaporating from oceans and land into vapor, condensing into clouds, and falling back to Earth as precipitation through rain, snow, or hail. The precipitation then either runs off into bodies of water or seeps underground in a continuous, circulating process.

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Science

Water Cycle

Get the Facts!


Earth is the only planet in our solar
system with large amounts of surface
water.
Life would not be possible without
water. Can you explain why?
Lucky for us, earths water will not run
out because it keeps moving through a
cycle.

Get the Facts!


Water covers three fourths of the
earths surface. What percentage is
that?
Most of the water (97%) is salt water
found in oceans.
Freshwater takes up 3% of earths
water.

Where is freshwater?
Most freshwater is frozen in ice caps near the
North and South Poles and in slowly moving
sheets of ice called glaciers.
Freshwater is also found in lakes, rivers,
streams, and ponds.
The air also holds water and water lies under
the earths surface.
Sightseeing boat in front of a
tidewater glacier, Kenai Fjords
National Park, Alaska

Water is always moving!


The water cycle is the movement of
water from the oceans and land into the
air and back again.
What is a cycle?

Water Cycle

Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation

Sun
Heat from
the sun
changes
water into
water
vapor

When the sun warms liquid


water on the surface of the
earth and changes it into
water vapor, this is called

EVAPORATION

Condensation
As Water vapor
rises in the air it
cools off. When it
gets cool enough,
it condenses into
tiny water
droplets of water.
These droplets
form clouds you
see in the sky.

When water vapor


forms clouds this is
called
CONDENSATION

When the clouds get heavy enough with


water droplets, they fall to Earth as
precipitation

Precipitation in the form of


rain, sleet, hail, snow falls
from clouds.

What happens to the water


once it hits earth?
Some water falls on the oceans.
Some falls on land.
Runoff is water that flows over the ground
after precipitation. The water flows into
bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, and
oceans
Some precipitation seeps into the ground.
Water below the earths surface is called
groundwater.

Water Cycle Song


(to the tune of Shell Be Coming Around the Mountain)
Water travels in a cycle, yes it does.
Use pointer finger to draw large circle in air.

Water travels in a cycle, yes it does.


Repeat above motion.

It goes up as evaporation,
Raise arms at side with palms up.

Forms clouds as condensation,


Brings hands together above head, forming large cloud shape with arms.

Then falls down as precipitation, yes it does.


Slowly lower arms at side with palms down, fingers moving.

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