1. Water Cycle

2. What is water?
Identify 5 ways you use water

3. Vocabulary Cycle- something that happens again and again
Evaporate – change from liquid to gas
Condense – change from gas to liquid
Precipitation- rain, snow, sleet, or hail
Transpiration – water given off by plants and animals
Runoff – water that stays above ground
Aquifer – underground water source

4. Match the term and its meaning
____ Cycle
A) change from gas to liquid
____ Evaporate
B) change from liquid to gas
____ Condense
C) something that happens again and again
____ Precipitation
D) Water given off by living things
____ Transpiration
E) Water that stays above ground
____ Runoff
F) Rain, snow, sleet, hail
____ Aquifer
G) Underground water source

5. Read the passage
Answer the questions
Complete a diagram of the water cycle

6. Some water goes into the ground. It becomes groundwater.
A cycle is something that happens over and over again. Many materials cycle through nature. Water moves through a cycle.
Evaporation happens when the sun warms the water. The water changes to water vapor and goes into the air. Most evaporation is from the ocean.
Condensation happens when the water vapor cools. Tiny droplets of water in the air form clouds.
When the droplets become large enough, they fall as precipitation – usually rain or snow.
Some water goes into the ground. It becomes groundwater.
Other water goes into streams, rivers and lakes as runoff.

7. Questions Name 2 kinds of precipitation. What is evaporation?
What process happens after evaporation?
What is a cycle?
Why is temperature important in the water cycle?

8. Use these terms to label the diagram
Evaporation
Water vapor
Condensation
Precipitation
Run off
Snow
Rain
Hail

9. heating evaporation ocean
vapor air lakes
heating evaporation ocean
On a warm, sunny day, water in a glass of water seems to slowly disappear. This is because the energy from the sun is _______________ the water up and turning the liquid water into water ______________. This process is called ___________________. When the water evaporates, it becomes an invisible gas in the _____________________. Evaporation takes places all over the earth, but especially in the ________________ and ________________ where there is lots of water.

10. Condenses rain droplets crystals
Condensation
Condenses rain droplets crystals
As the water vapor rises, it cools off and ______________________ into water _________________. If the water vapor becomes extremely cold, it will form ice ________________ instead of water droplets. As the water droplets or ice crystals grow bigger and more numerous, they form ___________________.

11. Heavy fall rain snow sleet
Precipitation
Heavy fall rain snow sleet
If water droplets or ice crystals become too _______________, they can’t stay in the air. They _________________. Water droplets precipitate as ________________ and ice crystals precipitate as _________________. Sometimes, the rain freezes before it hits the earth and precipitates as _________________.

12. glaciers plants streams
Runoff
Rivers runoff cycle
glaciers plants streams
This precipitation gathers into ________________ and _________________ that flow down to the lakes and oceans. This is called __________________. Not all of the water makes it back to the oceans and lakes right away. Some of it is used by animals and ________________. Some is frozen into ___________________. Eventually, the animals and plants breathe the water out and the glaciers melt, releasing the water back into the water _______________.

13. Water Words
Rain
ice cube
steam
Snow
river
frost
dew
icicle
Hail
Stream
vapor
Glacier
Iceberg
waterfall
lake
Ocean
River
sleet
Creek
Tears
sweat
We can find water in many places and in many forms. Water can be solid, liquid or a gas.
Choose 8 of these water words. Create a story, poem or song using the words you select.