The document is a lesson plan for a 4th grade science class on the water cycle. It includes 10 sections with links to online resources and questions for students to answer. The questions cover topics like the states of water, aquatic biomes, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, aquifers, cloud formation, and statistics from NASA on the water present on Earth and in the oceans. The lesson aims to teach students about how water moves and changes forms between oceans, air, land, and underground sources via evaporation, condensation, and precipitation in a repeating cycle.

2. How much of the water on earth is available for people’s everyday use?

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7. Where does the vapor go?

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9. Where is the water stored in the sky?

11. Where can condensation be found? ________________________________________________________________

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16. Where do you think a large amount of the water that gets evaporated comes from?

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19. Thunderstorms can be apart of the water cycle by allowing clouds to release the water from within. Name something interesting that you have read about from thunderstorms on this page.

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22. How much of the water on plant is in the ocean?

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24. What program is currently doing missions to study the earth’s water cycle?

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26. What other things is NASA doing to help the earth out?

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29. What is a question that you would write for your fellow classmates?

30. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Key:<br />1a. 50%<br />1b. 75% of the earth is water, but only 1% is available for use. The rest of the water contains salt.<br />2a. Atoms<br />2b. Bonds<br />2c. H2O H=Hydrogen O=Oxygen<br />3a. Fresh water and Marine<br />3b. Fresh water: ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands<br /> Marines: oceans, coral reefs, and estuaries <br />4a. Heat<br />4b. Air<br />4c. Clouds<br />5a. Process by which water vapor turns into liquid<br />5b. Near the ground, on the glass, etc.<br />5c. This is a personal question. Every answer will vary by student.<br />6a. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection<br />6b. <br />7a. Underground supply of water<br />7b. Oceans, lakes, rivers<br />8a. Cumulus, High, middle, low, and vertical clouds. <br />8b. Anything. As long as the student talks about something interesting to them about the water cycle.<br />9a. 78%<br />9b. 97%<br />9c. NASA- measuring a myriad of variables including: Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, ice accumulation. <br />10a. As long as the student covers items on the page, they will receive full credit. <br />10b. As long as the student writes a question that is relevant to the life cycle as represents they learned something from the lesson, they will receive credit. <br />