Precipitation and Hail

Science: Precipitation and Water Cycle

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Look at this! Do you ever wonder how the water gets on earth? The answer is: the water cycle! The water cycle is the circulation of water from the land to the air and back again! So we never ever run out of water! Lets see how it works!

Lets start evaporation. It is the first step of the water cycle. Evaporation is when the water turns into vapor, or air.

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What is evaporation?

• When liquid turns into vapor.

• When water comes down as rain,hail,sleet,or snow.

Now lets look at condensation. Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from the gas phase into the liquid phase, and is the reverse of vaporization. Basically, it turns back into water and now its filling up the clouds. When the clouds get full of water, they start to rain down precipitation!!

Multiple Choice

What is condensation?

• When liquid turns into vapor.

• When vapor turns back into liquid.

• When water falls down as precipitation.

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Now lets look at precipitation. This happens when the cloud gets full and needs to rain down. There are types of precipitation, hail, rain, sleet, or snow. Rain and snow are most common.

Multiple Choice

Water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

• evaporation

• transpiration

• condensation

• precipitation

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Select all that are TRUE!

• Snow is a precipitation.

• Rocks can also fall as precipitation.

• Humans can damage the water cycle.

• The water cycle is not essential for life on Earth.

Lets go to the LAST step. When water falls back to earth surface, it may collect in oceans, lakes, or rivers. When water falls onto land, it can either soak into the ground and become ground water or evaporate and start the whole cycle over again.

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What is this part of the Water Cycle called?

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

Multiple Choice

What is this part of the Water Cycle called?

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

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What do we call this part of the Water Cycle?

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

Multiple Choice

What do we call this part of the Water Cycle?

• Collection

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

What have we learned?

• How the water cycle works.

• The steps of the water cycle.