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1) Where is there water?
Elaborate:
Make your own illustration of the water cycle.
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- L5 Use the drawing tools below to draw your answer.
- L4 You might want to include lakes, streams, mountains and clouds.
- L3 Use the tools below to create your own water cycle.
![](images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif) | Stamps: lakes, streams, mountains and clouds. |
- L2 Choose the best from these examples and create it yourself with the tools below.
![](images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif) | examples of stamps arranged in good & bad configurations for water cycle |
- L1 Look at the example water cycle and create your own with the tools below.
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Extend:
![](images/icons/emoticons/forbidden.gif) | Biomes, energy (melting, evaporation, condensation, freezing) |
Water leaves lakes rises into the atmosphere, and then falls back to the ground as rain or snow. This is called the water cycle.
- Why do you think this is called a water cycle?
(Cycle is like circle. Then water goes in a circle and is recycled.)
2) What are clouds made of?
Elaborate:
![](images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif) | PICS: Different cloud formations. Sometimes the water forms ice crystals in clouds, known as cirrus. |
Extend: Why do you think it sometimes rains and sometimes snows?
3) How does water get into the air?
Where does evaporation occur in the water cycle?
![](images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif) | BACKGROUND IMAGE, ART of water cycle |
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- L5 Use the drawing tools to illustrate your answer.
- L4 Think about what happens to water when it evaporates.
- L3 When water evaporates, it goes from the liquid state to a gas. Where does that occur in the water cycle?
- L2 Does water evaporate in the clouds? Is rain or snow an example of evaporating water? Does water evaporate from lakes and oceans?
- L1 Try drawing the way water evaporates from a lake, ocean, river, plants or even the ground.
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4) How does water get out of the air?
Elaborate:
![](images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif) | BACKGROUND IMAGE, ART of water cycle |
Where does condensation occur in the water cycle?
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- L5 Use the drawing tools to illustrate your answer.
- L4 Think about what happens to water when it condenses.
- L3 When water condenses, it goes from the liquid state to a gas. Where does that occur in the water cycle?
- L2 Does water condense in the clouds? Is rain or snow an example of condensation of water? Does water condense from lakes and oceans?
- L1 Try drawing the way water condenses in a cloud to form water droplets, and eventually precipitation like rain or snow.
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Extend:
As you go up a mountain, the temperature of the air is cooler. What do you think happens to the water vapor in a cloud as it goes up the side of a mountain?
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- L5 Type your response in the text box below.
- L4 Think about what happens to water vapor in the air when it cools.
- L3 As the air cools, the water vapor _____
- L2 As the air cools,
![](images/icons/emoticons/warning.gif) | drawings: the cloud becomes bigger, the water vapor condenses and it rains or snows, the water in the ground and in rivers evaporates. |
- L1
- As the air cools, water condenses, eventually forming precipitation like rain or snow.
- The water vapor condenses, and the clouds become smaller.
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(It condenses, and you get rain or snow.)
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