The document describes the water cycle through the following processes: 1) Evaporation occurs when water from bodies of water and transpiration from plants turns into vapor and enters the sky. 2) Condensation happens when the water vapor in the air cools and turns back into liquid water droplets, forming clouds. 3) Precipitation occurs when the water falls back to earth as rain, hail or snow.

1. WATER

2. THE STATES OF MATTER
SOLID LIQUID GAS
ICE
WATER VAPOUR
SNOW

3. SOLID
LIQUID GAS
GETTING HOTTER
GETTING COLDER
PHASE CHANGES OF
MATTER
MELTING EVAPORATION
FREEZIN
G
CONDENSATION
SUBLIMATION
DEPOSITION

4. THE WATER CYCLE
EVAPORATION
(from oceans,
seas, lakes, rivers)
CONDENSATION
(Cloud formation)
PRECIPITATION
(Raining, hailing
or snowing)
TRANSPIRATION
(from plants)
COLLECTION
Surface
runoff
Groundwater

5. EVAPORATION
The water from oceans, rivers,
seas, lakes,… changes into
vapour and evaporates to the
sky.
TRANSPIRATION
The water from plants
changes into vapour and
evaporates to the sky.

6. CONDENSATION
The water vapour in the air gets
cold and changes back into liquid
(water drops), forming clouds.

7. PRECIPITATION
Any form of water, such as rain,
hail or snow, formed by
condensation of water vapour in
the atmosphere, falls to the earth's
surface.
Snowing RainingHailing

8. COLLECTION
When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in
the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends
up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of
the “ground water” that plants and animals use to drink or it may
run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where
the water cycle starts all over again.