Shannon MooreNicole Sienkiewicz

Take a moment to fill out what you know in the worksheet*.

*Note that the numbers do not indicate the order in which they occur.

The water cycle is also known as something else. Do you know what it’s called?

The hydrologic cycle!

Evaporation Transpiration Condensation (clouds form) Precipitation Surface runoff Subsurface runoff Accumulation

the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean

turns it into vapor or steam the water vapor or steam leaves the river,

lake or ocean goes into the air

water vapor in the air cools condenses and forms clouds in the

atmosphere by changing back into a liquid

http://www.kidzone.ws/water/ http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagr

ams/watercycle/watercycleq.html