Water Cycle Song
What is the first part of the water cycle?
What is the process when water turns into water vapor?
Evaporation.
Do clouds contain water, Yes or No?
Yes! They are made up of water droplets!
If you are a water droplet in a cloud, where can you go?
Anywhere!
What is the 2nd step of the water cycle?
Condensation
What is the process when water evaporates from trees or plants called?
Transpiration or Evapotranspiration
What places hold the most water on planet earth?
The oceans!
When the sun heats up water droplets, what do they become?
Water Vapor?
What is the 3rd step of the water cycle?
Precipitation.
What is the process of water vapor turning back into water and forming clouds?
Condensation.
What is water that runs off the surface of the earth and keeps moving to a larger body of water called?
Surface Runoff
If I am a droplet in the ocean, will it generally take me a longer or shorter time to evaporate?
Longer!
What is the 4th part of the water cycle?
Accumulation.
What happens when a cloud gets too heavy and full of water droplets?
Precipitation
What is water that is stored under the earth called?
Ground Water
Name 3 forms of Precipitation other than RAIN.
Options: Fog, Hail, Snow, Sleet
Sing the water cycle song *WITH THE HAND MOTIONS*
you know what to do :)
What is it called when the water droplets gather together again on earth after precipitation?
Accumulation
Another word for an Estuary?
A bay!
This word describes how much water vapor is in the air.
Humidity