2. What is the water cycle? Take a second to study the picture and talk to your table mates before you learn more.

3. …..What are your thoughts now?

4. Evaporation is … The state of a liquid changing into a vapor (gas). Evaporation is invisible. Evaporation requires energy (like the sun or a burner).

5. Condensation is… When the vapor (gas) cools and turns back (condenses) into liquid. The tiny droplets form CLOUDS.

6. Precipitation is… When the water returns back to the earth as: SNOW FREEZING RAIN HAIL RAIN

7. Collection is… The water that falls back to the ground collects in rivers, lakes, and oceans.

8. SOLID, LIQUID, or GAS

9. SolidLiquidGas Something that has a defined shape. Gases can fill a container of any size or shape and are invisible. It will take the shape of whatever container it is sitting in.

10. Is it a solid, liquid, or gas? Be able to explain your thought!