Water Cycle

 

First Name _____________________________     Last Name _______________________________________
                                                                                         Teacher _____________________________________

WATER CYCLE- Visit the web site below the questions to find the answers. 
1.  What are the three forms of water? ____________________________(___________________________)  
_______________________(___________________)     ___________(___________________________)

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/water.html

2.  What are some forms of precipitation? ____________________     _______________________________
______________________________________     ____________________________________________.

3.  What is the water storage area in the ground called?  ___________________________________________
4.  How does it help people? ________________________________________________________________

5.  When plants and trees lose water into the air it is called ________________________________________.

6.  When vapor in the air gets cold, it forms ____________________________________________________.

http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html

7.  Water is stored on earth as liquid in _______________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________.

8.  Water moves from the earth to the atmosphere (air) through _____________________________________
and _________________________________________________________________________________.

9.  Water moves from the clouds to the earth in the form of ________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________.

Click on scenes 2, 3, and 4 to read about the water cycle. 
http://www.kidsnewsroom.org/climatechange/water_cycle_version2.html

10.  Where does our household water come from? _________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________

11.  How much water does the average person use at home each day? ______________________________________

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/qahome.html

12.  Play the water word scramble.

http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/flash/flash_wordscramble.html

13.  Go on Morphie’s Great Water Ride Adventure.  At the end of the adventure, what does he Morphie want you to do? ____________________________________________________________________________________.

http://www.slideshare.net/magarces/morphies-great-water-ride-adventure-presentation

14.  Explore the Freshwater Ecosystems (Rivers and Streams, Ponds and Lakes, and Wetlands)

http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html