The Water Cycle

           The Water Cycle

By Kristie Turner-Jones

The water cycle has no beginning and no end as the lifecycle keeps going around and around.

Water is everywhere, it covers most of our planet.

Our large bodies of water include: lakes, ponds, and the ocean.

    We use water everyday.

We drink water.

We use water when we brush our teeth.

Water is also needed for plants and animals to live.

We have so much water due to a process called the water cycle. Here is a diagram of the water cycle.

The water cycle is the way that water moves through evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

Evaporation is when the sun heats up water that is in the lakes or the rivers.

The heat turns the water into a water vapor. The water vapor leaves the river and goes into the air.

Condensation is when the vapor turns cold and it changes back to a liquid.

Precipitation happens when a lot of water has condensed in the clouds and the air can no longer hold the water.

The clouds get heavier and the water begins to fall back to the earth in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

When the water falls back to earth as rain, sleet, snow, or hail; the water is collected into the ocean, lakes, streams, ponds, and rivers. This process is called collection.

The water cycle is natures way of recycling water over and over again.