Science - Water Cycle Day 1

Science - Water Cycle Day 1

SC.5.E.7.1: Create a model to explain the parts of the water cycle. Water can be a gas, a liquid, or a solid and can go back and forth from one state to another.​

​TODAY’S TARGET: Observe the parts of the water cycle

​Read everything and copy down what is in RED!

Multiple Choice

You are standing outside on a warm, sunny day. You are comfortable in your shorts, tee shirt, and shoes. You are wearing a hat to keep the Sun out of your eyes. In the sky above you a few clouds that look like puffy cotton balls are floating by. These clouds are an example of:

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

• reservoirs

THE WATER CYCLE​

If you have ever ridden a bicycle, you know that the wheels on the bike go round and round. This is what is meant by the word cycle: something that goes around, or repeats. The water cycle does exactly that: water moves around the Earth in different ways, and the cycle repeats.

Multiple Choice

The water cycle moves water around the Earth in different ways, and the cycle __________.

• ends

• repeats

• changes

• breaks

​I. Most of the water on Earth is found in the oceans.

a. Water in the oceans is salty, and can’t be used by plants and animals on land to survive.

b. Animals and plants on land need freshwater to survive.

II. Most of the freshwater on Earth is found in ice caps at the north and south poles

a. This water can’t be used by plants and animals.

III. Another huge reservoir, or place where water is stored, is underground.

a. Water that is in the ground is known as ground water.

b. Most of the drinking water that we use in Florida actually comes from groundwater.

Multiple Choice

Most of the water found on Earth is found ______________.

• in the oceans

• ice caps

• reservoir

• groundwater

Multiple Choice

Most of the freshwater found on Earth is found in the ____________.

• oceans

• ice caps

• reservoir

• groundwater

Multiple Choice

Most of the drinking water we use in Florida is ___________.

• in the oceans

•  in the ice caps

•  in the reservoir

• groundwater

​IV. On the surface of the Earth there are many lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, and swamps.

a. These are all areas where fresh water is collected.

b. Rivers and streams move freshwater from one place to another.

c. Lakes, ponds, marshes, and swamps are all places where water collects.

Multiple Choice

Lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, and swamps are all areas where fresh water is ______________.

• drank

• used

• hidden

• collected

​V. The Sun is the “engine” that drives the water cycle on Earth. Energy from the Sun heats the Earth.

a. As water heats, it will begin to evaporate, or turn into a gas.

• All air in the atmosphere contains some water vapor, called humidity  

• Because water vapor warmed by the Sun is warmer than the air around it, it rises in the atmosphere.

• As it rises, it begins to cool, which causes water particles to stick together, or condense.

• When this happens, tiny droplets of water begin to float in the air. When enough of these droplets are in the air, a cloud is formed.

• Condensation produces clouds.

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Multiple Choice

___________ from the sun heats the earth.

• Light

• Energy

• Heat

• Warmth

Multiple Choice

All air in the atmosphere contains some water vapor, called _________.

• steam

• water

• humidity

• gas

Multiple Choice

 As air rises, it begins to _______, which causes water particles to stick together, or condense.

• heat up

• cool

​There are three kinds of clouds to be familiar with.

• Cirrus clouds are very high in the atmosphere, move quickly over the surface of the Earth.

a. These clouds resemble hair blowing in the wind.

• Stratus clouds are low, flat clouds that cover the sky.

• Cumulus clouds look like cotton balls floating in the sky.

• Cirrus clouds do not produce precipitation, but stratus and cumulus clouds do.

Multiple Choice

_________ clouds are very high in the atmosphere, move quickly over the surface of the Earth

• Cumulous

• Cirrus

• Stratus

Multiple Choice

________ clouds are low, flat clouds that cover the sky.

• Cirrus

• Stratus

• Cumulous

Multiple Choice

Cirrus clouds do not produce precipitation, but stratus and ________ clouds do.

• Cirrus

• Stratus

• Cumulous

VI. Droplets of water in clouds begin to stick together

• They grow larger and larger, those droplets will get heavy

  • enough that they no longer float in the air, and will fall to the ground.

• ​Falling droplets of liquid water are called rain.

  • Rain is a form of precipitation.

  • Precipitation is an important part of the water cycle

• Some of that falling rain will fall on the oceans, some on the land.

• Some of that rain can be used by plants and animals to survive, and some will collect in rivers, lakes, marshes, and swamps.

• Some of that water will be soaked into the ground as groundwater.

• Every day this cycle repeats, all over the Earth: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, all driven by the heat of the Sun.

Multiple Choice

Every day this cycle repeats, all over the Earth: evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, all driven by the heat of the _______.

• air

• wind

• Earth

• Sun

Multiple Choice

Kendrick has created a model of the water cycle. Kendrick has a plastic tub filled with a small amount of water. On top of the tub, he has placed a clear lid. A light bulb above the lid provides heat. Small drops of water that are sticking to the inside of the plastic lid without falling are an example of:

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Reservoirs