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The Water Cycle. ESS5.4. Earth’s Water. Earth has a limited amount of water. Water is constantly moving in what we call the water cycle. Evaporation. Changing from a liquid to a gas. When the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam.
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The Water Cycle ESS5.4
Earth’s Water • Earth has a limited amount of water
Evaporation • Changing from a liquid to a gas
When the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam • The vapor or steam rises into the air
Transpiration • the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves
Condensation • Changing from a gas to a liquid
Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds
Precipitation • when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore • clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow
Collection • water falls back to earth as precipitation it falls into lakes, rivers, oceans, or land and is collected • The water cycle starts again