What is the Water Cycle?
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Runoff and Collection
100

This is the process where water turns into gas and rises into the air.

What is evaporation?

100

The heat from this causes water to evaporate.

What is the Sun?

100

This forms in the sky when water vapor cools down.

What are clouds?

100

This is the most common form of precipitation.

What is rain?

100

After it rains, water flows into streams, rivers, lakes, and ____.

What are oceans?

200

This is the process where water vapor in the air cools and turns into drops of water.

What is condensation?

200

This part of the water cycle starts with water in oceans, lakes, or rivers turning into a gas.

What is evaporation?

200

You see condensation on this when it fogs up while you drink something cold.

What is a glass or cup?

200

This happens when clouds become too heavy with water droplets.

What is precipitation?

200

This is the name for water moving downhill to lakes or rivers.

What is runoff?

300

This is when water falls from clouds as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.

What is precipitation?

300

Evaporation happens faster when the weather is ____.

What is warm or hot?

300

Clouds are made of tiny ____.

What are water droplets?

300

These tiny white pieces of ice fall from the sky during winter.

What is snow?

300

Water collects in these big, salty bodies of water.

What are oceans?

400

This is the word for water moving across the land into rivers, lakes, and oceans.

What is runoff?

400

Evaporation is when liquid water turns into this.

What is water vapor?

400

This happens when water vapor turns back into liquid water.

What is condensation?

400

This type of precipitation is frozen rain that can hurt plants and cars.

What is hail?

400

This is where fresh water is stored for people, plants, and animals to use.

What are lakes and rivers?

500

This is the name for the journey water takes through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff.

What is the water cycle?

500

You might see evaporation happen on this warm, wet surface after it rains.

What is a puddle?

500

Condensation happens when the air is warm or cold?

What is cold?

500

Precipitation can return to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or ____.

What is hail?

500

Water runs back into rivers and lakes to start this all over again.

What is the water cycle?