Why is water so important?

Survival: Humans, Animals, Plants

Energy: Dams, Electricity
Cleaning, Hygiene, Recreation,
Farming, Industrial, Food

In your Group:
Make a list of all the places we can
find water on earth.
Group these into these three
categories : Glaciers (frozen water),
Fresh Water (Drinking water), and
Oceans (salt water).
Estimate the percentage of each
category found on earth. They
should add up to equal 100%
Use the pennies to represent the
three percentages of the categories.

Categories Of Our Water:

The Water Cycle

Water has been around for

billions of years

Water gets recycled over

and over again

Image courtesy of US Environmental Protection Agency

What is the Water Cycle?

Transpiration
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Accumulation (Collection)

This is the water cycle!

condensation

transpiration
evaporation

accumulation

precipitation

Transpiration
the evaporation of water from plants

Transpiration
Do plants really sweat?
Plants like me release water
to supply photosynthesis,
bring minerals up from the
roots, and cool ourselves off.

Evaporation
The conversion of water from a liquid to a gas

Solar energy drives evaporation of water from the ocean.

The evaporated water changes from a liquid form into
water vapor a gaseous form.

Condensation

The transformation of water vapor back into liquid water by cooling

Evaporated water is warmed and rises into the air where

it eventually cools and condenses to form clouds.

Precipitation

Rain, hail, or snow falling from the clouds

due to the condensation of water

When clouds become very heavy with

With
condensed
enough condensed
water, the water
water,isyou
released
get rain!
in the form of rain, hail, or snow.

Accumulation
The collection of precipitation into rivers, lakes, and oceans.

This completes the water cycle!

Bill Nye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Offi-n
ET3T8

REVIEW
Discuss the following questions with
your buddy using our vocabulary:
Does water in the ground end up in
the atmosphere again? How?
How does water change states in
the water cycle?

This is the water cycle!

condensation

transpiration
evaporation

accumulation

precipitation

Temperature:
The measurement of how hot or cold
something is.
What does this have to do with the water
cycle?
The source of energy (Sun or heat) of the
water cycle changes the state (liquid,
solid, or gas) of the water.

Temperature:
Hot temperature:
vapor (gas form of water)
Room temperature:
Liquid
Freezing temperature:
solid (ice form of water)

Types Of Precipitation:
What types of water fall out of the sky?
Discuss with your neighbor
Some are liquid (rain)
Some are solid (sleet, hail, snow)

Rain:

How does is feel and look when its about to rain?

Does the air feel humid
(damp and heavy)?

Rain falls when growing water droplets

become too heavy to remain in clouds,
and fall toward the earths surface.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=zBnKgwnn7i4

Snow:

How does it feel when it snows?

Snow is ice crystals that

form into flakes. Snow
forms at temperatures
below freezing.
.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozQJIBqFbJI

Sleet:
What is sleet?
Frozen rain drops that begin as snow in
the atmosphere but then partially melt
and refreeze.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS
S4xQNfmMs

Hail:
What is hail?
Large frozen raindrops produced by intense
thunderstorms where snow and rain can
coexist. Snow flakes fall and liquid rain
freezes over them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxv_M0p_
I2A

Precipitation
Which type of precipitation is water in its
liquid form?
Which types of precipitation are made of
water in its solid form?
How is sleet different from hail?
How is rain different from snow?
How are rain, sleet, snow, and hail similar?
What happens if there is too much rain? Too
little?

Practice:

Create A Water Cycle

Bracelet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05djitkEFI

BeadColor

WhatitRepresents

Yellow

Sun

Clear Bead

Evaporation

White Bead

Condensation (Clouds)

Blue Bead

Precipitation/ Collection

This is the water cycle!

condensation

transpiration
evaporation

accumulation

precipitation

The Water Cycle Story

Vocabulary:
water, solid, liquid, gas, evaporation,
condensation, precipitation, collection,
infiltration, ground water, runoff

Review
Does it matter that students chose to
start in different places?
Why or why not?
Did most water droplets undergo similar
processes? Why or why not?
How is all the water on earth and in the
atmosphere connected?

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