The Water Cycle

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The Water Cycle

• By Jessica Griffioen-Ulmer

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Why is water important to us?

• Plants
• Animals
• and,
• Humans
• need water to live.

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• What is the water cycle?
• The continuous movement of water from the
  atmosphere to the earth back to the atmosphere to
  the earth to the atmosphere to the earth back to
  the atmosphere to the earth to the atmosphere to
  the earth back to the atmosphere to the earth to
  the atmosphere to the earth back to the
  atmosphere to the earth to the atmosphere to the
  earth back to the atmosphere to the earth to the
  earth back to the atmosphere to the earth to the
  atmosphere to the earth back to the atmosphere to
  the earth to the
• The cycle never ends

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Water travels through these four main parts
Click on each part to see what they do!
EVAPORATION
CONDENSATION
PRECIPITATION
COLLECTION
Take the Quiz!!
Test your knowledge!
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Evaporation

• The sun heats up water in lakes, rivers, and
  oceans and the water is then transported into the
  air through vapors or steam.
• Just like the steam that you see
• coming from a tea kettle.

Click to hear the sound a tea kettle makes when
the steam comes out!
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Condensation

• Once the steam or vapors in the air get cold, it
  changes back into a liquid and forms clouds.

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Precipitation

• When there is so much water that is condensed in
  the air, the air cannot hold it anymore and it
  returns back to the earth through rain, sleet,
  hail, or snow.

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Collection

• The water falls back to the earth as
  precipitation, it may fall back into oceans,
  lakes, rivers, or the earth.

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Click each button to see what part of the water
cycle is being represented!
Click here to continue!
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QUIZ!!!

• In this part of the water cycle the sun heats up
  water (rivers, oceans, lakes) and the water is
  transported through steam
• a) collection
• b) condensation
• c) evaporation
• d) precipitation

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CORRECT!!!Evaporation is when the sun heats
up water and the water is transported into the
air.
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INCORRECT

• Try Again!

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I am Jessica Griffioen-Ulmer.I am a senior at
Western Michigan University. My major is in
Special Education and minor in English. I enjoy
being outdoors and spending time with my family.
I love animals, I have four cats and one
dog.Below is a picture of me with my one month
old niece, Penelope.
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THE END!!!
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