Water Cycle Steps
This step occurs when water vapor cools and forms into tiny droplets in clouds.
What is Condensation?
The water cycle helps make this important thing available for plants, animals, and people.
What is Water
Most of Earth’s water is found in these large bodies of salt water.
What are oceans?
This bright object in the sky gives the water cycle its energy.
What is the Sun?
The Sun warms water on Earth, water vapor cools to form clouds, and water falls back to Earth. What is the name for this repeating journey of water?
The Sun warms water on Earth, water vapor cools to form clouds, and water falls back to Earth. What is the name for this repeating journey of water?
This step happens when the Sun warms liquid water, and it changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
Name two of the ways people, plants, and animals can get water from their surroundings.
What are drinking water and absorbing it?
The Rivers and lakes of Newport News, Virginia, empty into this large body of water.
Answer: What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The water cycle has no special first or last step. It keeps doing this.
What is repeating?
In this step, water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
People and animals can also get some of the water they need from this.
What is food?
Unlike saltwater oceans, these flowing bodies of water are usually freshwater.
What are lakes?
When water vapor cools and forms liquid drops or ice before it can fall from clouds. What happens as it cools?
What is condensation?
Clouds are made of tiny drops of water or ice. This water-cycle step helps form clouds.
What is condensation?
The water cycle reuses and replenishes water. This helps living things get what they need to survive.
What is fresh water?
This water-cycle step gathers water in places such as lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What is Collection?
If the Sun’s heat stopped reaching Earth, water on the surface would not change into water vapor through this step.
What is evaporation?
Liquid water is heated and changes into a gas called water vapor. Name this step.
What is evaporation?
A drought means very little rain falls for a long time. Water can still evaporate, but there is less of it available for plants, animals, and people.
What is a drought’s effect on water availability?
Most lakes are freshwater, while oceans are much larger and mostly made of this kind of water.
What is saltwater?
Water moves through the cycle and changes form. It can travel from the ground to clouds and back again. What does this show about the water cycle?
What is that it keeps going without a specific beginning or end?