The Water Cycle

What is the water cycle?

• How water gets purified in a plant.
• The way water gets from a water tower in to your home.
• The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again.
• The movement of water from under the ocean onto the beach.

Water that falls from clouds to Earth's surface in solid or liquid form.

• Precipitation
• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Collection

Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.

• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Collection
• Condensation

When water is heated, and changed into vapor, and floats to the sky.

• Condensation
• Evaportation
• Collection
• Precipitation

Water that collects in oceans, lakes, and rivers.

• Collection
• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation

What is the source of energy for the water cycle? (Pick 2)

• Sun
• Moon
• Earth
• Gravity

Snow, sleet, hail, and rain are all examples of _________?

• Condensation
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Collection

How many forms of precipitation do we have?

• 8
• 3
• 4
• 5

The liquid form of water droplets that form in clouds, and drop from the sky.

• Sleet
• Rain
• Snow
• Hail

Rain droplets fall from the sky as a result of?

• The sun
• The moon
• Gravity
• The Oceans