The document describes the water cycle and its importance. It explains that the sun heats water in the oceans, causing evaporation. Water evaporates from oceans, ice, snow, and plants. Rising air currents carry the vapor into the atmosphere where cooler temperatures cause condensation into clouds. Cloud particles collide and grow, then fall as precipitation in the forms of rain, snow, hail, fog or sleet. Precipitation runs off as snowmelt or surface runoff, infiltrating the ground to become groundwater or filling lakes and oceans, where the cycle repeats.

1. Why is Water Important? By: Samantha Hosea

3. The Sun drives the cycle heats water in the ocean causes the water to evaporate

4. Evaporation Evaporation from the ocean Sublimation: evaporation from ice and snow Evapotranspiration: evaporation from plants and soil

5. Water Storage Rising air currents take vapor up into the atmosphere Cooler temperatures in the atmosphere make the water particles condense into clouds

6. Precipitation Cloud particles collide and grow and then fall to the ground falls as: rain, snow, hail, fog and sleet

7. Run Off snowmelt: run off produced by melting snow surface run off: precipitation on the ground

8. Ground water Infiltration: water from the surface sinks into the ground Ground water finds openings in the land surface/aquifers ground water and run off stored in lakes

9. Ocean Over time, the water reenters the ocean and the process starts all over again.

10. Describe What are the different stages of the water cycle? Describe them

11. Create Sketch a picture of the water cycle by using the paint program on your computer

12. Everyday How does the water cycle affect you everyday? Present it in a slide share.

13. TEKs 112.4.10.A 110.4.20.B 110.4.20.C 110.4.20.D 126.2.3.A 126.2.3.B 126.2.7.A 126.2.11A

14. Works Cited www.flickr.com www.teachertube.com www.wikipedia.com