The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story
In the winter, a snowflake falls from the sky and becomes a droplet along with millions of other droplets into streams, ponds, and rivers. Droplets are very small drops of water that fall from the sky. Since snow is made up of water, they can also be called droplets.
The droplet flows into villages and cities into pipes and squirts into sprinklers on land.
The droplet evaporates into the sky.
Evaporation is when the sun heats up waters and turns water into a gas that goes into the air.
During a storm, the cloud full of droplets pours millions of droplets into reservoirs. A reservoir is a big natural lake where we store our water supply.
The clean water goes through our big pipes and small pipes and that's where we get our clean water.
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The Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story
Written by: Neil Waldman
The Millbrook Press
2003