The Water Cycle

What is precipitation?

• Water on the floor or ground

• Water that falls from the sky in different forms

• When water is heated and changes from a liquid to a gas

• When water turns into clouds

What is evaporation?

• When water falls to the ground

• When water is cooled and turns to ice

• When water turns into clouds

• When water is heated and changes from liquid to gas

What is water vapour?

• Water which is falling from the sky

• Water which is frozen

• Water which is not frozen into a solid or cooled into a liquid

• Water which is in liquid form, such as the oceans

What is condensation?

• Water which runs off mountains and hills.

• When water cools down and changes back into a liquid to form clouds

• Water which is in ice form

• Water which falls from the sky such as rain

What word does this image represent?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Water vapour

Where on the water cycle would you find condensation happening?

Imagine you are water in the ocean. Reorder the following to complete the water back to the ocean again.

• Once evaporated, you turn into water vapour

• You are heated by the sun and are evaporated

• You cool down and condense into clouds

• You run off hills and mountains back down into the ocean

• You fall from the sky as precipitation