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Material Gr5
The Water Cycle
Water changes from its liquid form to its gaseous form and
back to its liquid form in a process called the water cycle.
The three main steps in the water cycle are evaporation,
condensation, and precipitation.
Evaporation is when the liquid water changes into a
gaseous form to become water vapor in the air. This is
usually when the suns light heats up the ocean.
Condensation is when the water vapor turns back into a
liquid in the clouds. And precipitation is when the liquid
water returns to the earth.
Evaporation occurs as liquid water is heated and
changed into water vapor. The water vapor is then carried
up into the sky by rising air.
Condensation takes place as the rising water vapor cools
and is changed into liquid water, forming clouds.
Precipitation happens as water droplets grow
heavy and fall to the Earth as rain, snow, or sleet.
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Water is constantly moving back and forth from the
air to the ground in the water cycle.
Activity 1 – look at the diagram below, look at the steps
and write the down in the table below.
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Activity 3 During reading activity:
A- Circle the correct answer:
1. The Water Cycle has no beginning and no end.
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2. When the sun shines on the sea evaporation takes
place and water vapor forms.
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3. Clouds are made of water droplets.
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4. When clouds are full of water droplets they fall as rain,
or snow.
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5. The rain falls on to the land and stays there.
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B- How does the water in the ocean become clouds?
Explain
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C- What am I?
Choose a word from the box below and answer the
following questions:
a. condensation
b. evaporation
c. precipitation
d. runoff
1. _________________ I am changing from a liquid into a
gas. What am I?
2. _______________ I am the changing from a gas into a
liquid as the gas cools. What am I?
3. __________________ I fall to Earth's surface as rain or
snow. What am I?
4.________________ I am precipitation that flows over
the land's surface into rivers and lakes and is not
absorbed into the ground. What am I?
D- Match the letters above to label the diagram of the
water cycle below.
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Activity 4
Water drop diary/story
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water source, run off, wind
Imagine you are a water drop and describe what happens to
you in the water cycle using the words above.
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I start feeling hot and energetic…
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Form clouds ( condensation)
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