Water Cycle E-Book
Water Cycle E-Book
Water Cycle E-Book
Table of Contents
Introduction
Big Idea: The water cycle plays an integral part in our everyday
lives here on Earth.
1. Introduction: P. 2 4
2. Chapter 1: P. 5 P. 8
3. Chapter 2: P. 9 P. 12
4. Chapter 3: P. 13 P. 16
5. Chapter 4: P. 17 P. 20
6. Glossary: P. 21
7. Bibliography: P. 22
Preview:
The water cycle is a continuous pattern in which water
evaporates into gas, travels into the air (transpiration)
becoming part of a cloud (condensation), then falls
from a cloud as precipitation, and evaporates again, to
repeat the never ending process.
Water keeps moving and changing from a solid to a
liquid to a gas, over and over again.
At the poles, it is huge masses of ice (solid). In lakes,
rivers, and oceans, it is liquid. In the atmosphere,
reaching upward for many miles, it is vapor appearing
as clouds.
Chapter One
Evaporation & Transpiration
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For every loaf of bread produced, there is 570
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gallons of water from the water cycle used.
Chapter Two
Condensation & Precipitation
I can identify the process and characteristics of condensation.
I can identify the process and characteristics of precipitation.
I can identify 4 forms of precipitation.
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Chapter Three
Runoff
I can identify the process and characteristics of runoffs.
I can identify bodies of water runoff collects into.
I can identify why runoffs sometimes may be harmful to planet
Earth.
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only about a week without water.
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Chapter Four
Wrap Up & Reflection
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Follow Up Questions:
Hands On Activities:
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Fill in the rest of your KWL chart. Is there more you would
like to know?
Do you understand each component of the water cycle? Create
and label a diagram to represent your understanding. Then
briefly explain the process within each stage.
What stage of the water cycle do you find to be most
important? Convince me why this is the most important stage.
Write a paragraph no shorter than 6 sentences. Note: You will
share this information with class members in a debate like
manner.
You're a weatherman. With your group members, take note of
the weather outside each day for a week. Note your
observations and create a daily log that will be featured in your
classroom newspaper of your findings. Make sure when you are
describing the weather outside you are using water cycle
terminology. Once completed at the end of the week, you may
orally report OR act out your findings in the shoes of a
weatherman.
Create an ABC list in regards to the water cycle with your
group members.
Read this article.
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Glossary
Condensation: water that collects as droplets to form a
cloud.
Cycle: any complete round or series of occurrences that
repeats or is repeated.
Erosion: the gradual destruction or diminution of something.
Evaporation: the process of a substance in a liquid state
changing to a gaseous state due to an increase in
temperature.
Evapotranspiration: the process by which water is
transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation
from the soil and other surfaces, and by transpiration from
plants.
Groundwater: water found underground in the cracks and
spaces in soil, sand and rock.
Infiltrate: to pass into or through something.
Interdependent: two or more people are things that depend
on one another.
Precipitation: the process of forms of water (rain, hail, sleet,
and snow) that falling from a solution to the ground.
Runoff: the draining away of water from the surface of an
area of land.
Transpiration: the process where plants absorb water
through the roots and then give off water vapor through
pores in their leaves.
Water Cycle: the cycle of processes by which water
circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land,
involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams
and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and
transpiration.
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Bibliography
Websites:
http://www.eschooltoday.com/watercycle/the-water-cycle.html
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/
http://facts.net/water-cycle-facts/
https://www3.epa.gov/safewater/kids/wa
terfactsoflife.html
http://sciencepoems.net/sciencepoems/w
atercycle.aspx#.V1VjYDdvN4M
http://google.com [glossary definitions]
https://www.brainpop.com/science/earth
system/watercycle/
Books:
The Magic School Bus Wet All Over: A
Book About The Water Cycle by Joanna
Cole.
Water Dance by Thomas Locker.
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