The document discusses the water cycle through defining key terms like evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration. Evaporation turns water into vapor, condensation forms water drops from vapor as it cools, precipitation deposits water from clouds, and transpiration moves water through plants and evaporates it from their leaves. These processes interact in a cycle that continuously circulates water around Earth.

1. By Katryna L. Johnson
09/25/12
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2. What is a cycle? Clouds
Stages of Matter Precipitation
Evaporation Transpiration
Evaporation in Action The Water Cycle
Condensation Summary
Condensation in Action The End
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3.  What types of cycles can you think of?
 What do they have in common?
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4.  Solid
 Liquid
 Gas
 What causes water to move from a solid to a
liquid and a liquid to a gas?
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5.  What is Evaporation?
 Evaporation is the process of a water turning
into water vapor.
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6.  Can you think of any times that you have seen
water evaporating??
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7.  What is Condensation?
 Condensation is the formation of water drops
from water vapor.
 When does it occur?
 As the Water Vapor Cools down the drops are
formed.
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8.  Can you think of a time when you have seen
Condensation happening?
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9.  Clouds are formed by
condensation. When the heated
water vapor rises into the sky it
comes in contact with cooler air
creating water droplets and ice
which we call clouds.
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10.  What is Precipitation?
 Precipitation is the process of the condensed
water in the clouds forming larger drops that
fall to the ground as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
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11.  What is Transpiration?
 Transpiration is the process of water moving
from the root of plants and trees to the
underside of their leaves and evaporating.
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13.  There are 4 main terms to be familiar with:
 Evaporation
 Condensation
 Transpiration
 Precipitation
 Know how they interact in a circle to form the
Water Cycle.
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14.  Useful sites for more information
 http://msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-
6/wc/water/2/wcwa2_3a.html
 http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Water_
Cycle.aspx
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