Water Cycle
What is the water cycle?
Evaporation
Condensation
Persipitation
After your teacher tells you and your classmates a funny story about her first time riding a roller coaster, your classmate draws a comic strip about the event. The comic strip is...
secondhand account
temperature
4/7 + 3/7
7/7 or 1
11 X 3/5
33/5
Which of these is an example of precipitation?
snow air clouds vapor
snow
You read a book about World War I. It includes letters written from the soldiers to their loved ones back home in America, telling them about the war. The letters are...
firsthand account
What is the name of a scientist who studies weather?
meterologist
17/20 - 12/20
5/20 or 1/4
9 X 5/6
45/6
When water droplets get large enough to fall from the cloud's it is called
Condensation Transpiration Sublimation Precipitation
Precipitation
Your teacher shows you famous photographs captured during the Great Depression. The photographs are…
firsthand account
A anemometer is used to measure what?
wind speed
27/40 - 9/40
18/40 or 9/20
23 X 2/3
46/3
In this stage of the water cycle, water becomes a gas (water vapor).
evaporation run-off condensation precipitation
evaporation
You can find firsthand account by finding the pronouns
you, your he, she, it I, me, we, us
I, me, we, us
You see lightning and hear thunder.
True or False
True
13/21 + 8/21
21/21 or 1
11 X 4/5
44/5
Identify the power source for the water cycle. The power that keeps the water cycle going.
The Sun The Earth The Wind Gravity
The Sun
In 1843, thousands of people began traveling across America to the open lands of the West. Most of these people followed a path known as the Oregon Trail. Pioneers set out from towns along the Missouri River in the Midwest. They made a 2,000 mile trek to their new homes in California and Oregon. Some traveled in covered wagons. Others were on foot or horseback. The route was filled with danger and hardship.
secondhand account
hail
23/50 - 17/50
6/50 or 3/25
6 X 3/4
18/4