40 likes | 171 Views
13 Equilibrium Game - H2O Where Does Rain Come From?. Summer 2004 To get back to activities page: http://128.83.243.140/ScienceByHorns/activities.html. Water In the Air. When the water cycle is discussed students can connect that water evaporates into the air.
E N D
13 Equilibrium Game - H2OWhere Does Rain Come From? Summer 2004 To get back to activities page: http://128.83.243.140/ScienceByHorns/activities.html
Water In the Air • When the water cycle is discussed students can connect that water evaporates into the air. • Increasing the forward fraction shows that more water goes into the air on a hot day. • The air can become saturated at a certain temperature. • Then if the air is cooled, the forward fraction decreases and … • … WATER comes out of the air as … RAIN.
Increase and Decrease Fraction Increase and decrease the fraction and see what happens (evaporation and then rain).
Make a Cloud in a Bottle • To further explore the connections to weather, we have links from the Home Page to show how to make a cloud in a bottle. • Again this is saturation related which means it has to do with forward and backward processes (where now the fraction is changed by pressure, not by heat).