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Discover the hydrological cycle and how it works. Learn interesting water facts and how water sustains life. Explore the processes of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. See the importance of water in our daily lives. Watch a video on the water cycle.
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Water and Us. Aim: To find out what the hydrological cycle is and how it works.
Water Facts About 66% of your body is made up of water. Water helps us to digest food and get rid of waste. Keeps your skin healthy Stops bones from grinding together Stops your eyes from drying out Body temperature is controlled by water. A living tree is 70% water A tomato is 90% water.
Water can be stored on earth.. Sea Air On Land
And comes in the form of.. Rain Ice Snow
Click title for google video on Water Cycle. Start on 5mins 40 secs The Hydrological Cycle. Click on image to see clip
Evaporation • Evaporation: Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapour or steam. The water vapour or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.
Condensation Condensation: Water vapour in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation. You can see the same sort of thing at home... pour a glass of cold water on a hot day and watch what happens. Water forms on the outside of the glass. That water didn't somehow leak through the glass! It actually came from the air. Water vapour in the warm air, turns back into liquid when it touches the cold glass.
Precipitation Precipitation: Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.
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 cycle starts …..all over again!
Have a guess. If the water cycle stopped tomorrow, how long would we have before water ran out? 4 Weeks !