1. *The Water Cycle* By: Erika Eisenhardt, Leah Feingold, and Janice Matlon

2. What is the Water Cycle? Water Cycle ● Goes into the air ● Forms rain ● Goes into lakes and rivers ● Cycles through again

3. Why is it Important? All humans, animals, plants, and living organisms need it to survive The earths supply of water

4. What makes up the Water Cycle? Infiltration Evaporation Condensation Precipitation

5. *Infiltration* Water is stored in reservoirs such as oceans, polar ice, and glaciers. The movement of water into the soil and rocks In this stage, the water is purified and cleaned as it goes lower into the ground Water that is not filtered through the soil turns into runoff into oceans but most goes into the sky

6. *Evaporation* ● The sun is the energy in the form of heat that controls the water cycle and continues the flow This heat causes the water in different reservoirs such as lakes, rivers, streams, puddles, and oceans to evaporate into the sky The water then goes through a phase change from a liquid to a gas as it turns to water vapor

7. *Condensation* ● The process by which the gas turns back into a liquid Primarily in the atmosphere As the water vapor goes higher into the atmosphere, it turns into water droplets

8. *Precipitation* As more water builds up into the clouds to form the clouds, they get bigger ● Once they reach a large size that is big enough where the atmosphere can no longer hold them, the water droplets fall from the sky ● Different Forms: rain, sleet, snow, or hail ● After it precipitates, the runoff goes back into lakes, streams, rivers, and ocean and begins to repeat the cycle

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10. *Works Cited* www.dreamstime.com/water-drop-thumb1240133 http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/water%20cycle http://www.enviroliteracy.org/subcategory.php/342.html http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=rain+clip+art&aq=f&oq= http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=rain+clip+art&aq=f&oq