The Water Cycle

What is precipitation?

• Sweat from our bodies on hot days

• Warm rain but not cold snow or sleet

• Gas that we use in furnaces or ovens

• Any form of water that falls from the sky

What are forms of precipitation?

• Rain

• Snow

• Dirt

• Sleet

• Hail

Choose the correct term with this definition: Water vapor turning into a liquid.

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Accumulation

Choose the correct term with this definition: Liquid water changing into water vapor.

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Runoff

Transpiration is the evaporation out of what?

• Air

• Animals

• Clouds

• Plants

Select places where water can accumulate

• Lakes

• Oceans

• Rivers

• Puddles

• Cupped hands

What is the water cycle?

• Water moving around in a circle.

• Water traveling through your body.

• Repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms.

• Movement of water through the atmosphere.

List the steps in order of the water cycle.

The water cycle is ________ to most life and ecosystems on the planet.

What do we call water in its gas state?

• rain

• snow

• ice

• water vapor

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4