The Water Cycle

1. Mrs. Delgado’s Fifth Grade class
learns about…

2. The Water Cycle
 The earth has a limited amount of
water
 The Water Cycle is driven by the sun
 The water cycle or hydrologic cycle is a continuous
cycle where water evaporates, travels into the air and
becomes part of a cloud, falls down to earth as
precipitation, and then evaporates again. This repeats
again and again in a never-ending cycle.

3. The Water Cycle
This cycle is made up
of a few main parts:
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Collection

4. Evaporation
 The heat from the sun
causes liquid water to
turn into gas (or vapor)
 Everyday, tons of water
evaporates
 The warm gas rises into
the air

5. Condensation
 As water vapor cools, it
turns from a gas to a
liquid
FUN FACT
 When a large amount of
water vapor condenses
on dust particles, a cloud
forms

6. Precipitation
 When water in the clouds gets heavy, gravity goes to
work
 Water then falls back to the Earth

7. Collection
 When water falls back to the Earth, it may fall back in the
oceans, lakes rivers, or it may end up on land
 On land, water will either soak into the earth, or it may
run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes, or
rivers where the cycle starts ALL OVER AGAIN!

8. The Water Cycle

9. What Did We Learn?
• What is the Water Cycle?
• What part of the Water Cycle includes
clouds?
• What causes evaporation?