The Water Cycle

​Understand the water cycle and what it is.

​Know the different stages of the water cycle.

​Know what happens during each stage of the water cycle.

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​SC8.4.2.g Describe the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation)

• ​Watch this video:

  • ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77sebHmfdk

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• The sun heats the ​water changing it into vapor

• ​Vapor goes up in the sky and that process is evaporation

  • ​happens on rivers, dams, lakes, etc.

• Vapor cools once it rises and turns into tiny droplets that form clouds

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• ​The droplets come together and they become bigger droplets and fall to the ground because of gravity

• This is known as precipitation and this is how rain fall s produced

  • ​If it is even colder that is when sleet or snow are produced in the same process

• The water falls to the ground and the sun heats it up and the cycle starts over again.

​The route the water follows over the lands surface changing through different stages

​-Evaporation: Water changes into vapor

​-Condensation: The Vapor goes up to the sky, forming clouds

​- Precipitation: The vapor cools forming tiny droplets

​-Collection: The water falls to the ground and the cycle starts over