The Water Cycle Active Reading

Discover the amazing Water Cycle! Learn about evaporation, condensation, and precipitation with this engaging worksheet.

Water makes up 60-75% of human body weight. A loss of just 4% of total body water leads to dehydration, and a loss of 15% can be fatal leading to death. A person could survive a month without food but wouldn’t survive 3 days without water. Water is important to living organisms for many reasons including to fill cells and help them maintain their shape and to help with chemical reactions inside the body, 1. What percent of the human body is made of water? 4 % 15 % 20 % 60-70 % 2 What percent of water loss leads to a human body can be fatal and lead to death? 4 % 15 % 20 % 60-70 % 3 What percent of water loss leads to a human body being dehydrated? 4 % 15 % 20 % 60-70 % 4. How long can a human live without water? 1 day 3 days 1 month 3 months 5. How long can a human live without food? 1 day 3 days 1 month 3 months 6. Why is water important to organisms? Because it fill cells and help them maintain their shape and to help with chemical reactions inside the body, The continuous movement of water into the air, onto the land, and then back to water sources is known as the water cycle. The water cycle is also called the hydrology cycle. The major processes of the water cycle include evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. Evaporation is the process of a liquid changing into a gas. In the water cycle, liquid water is heated by the sun and changes into a gas and then rises into the atmosphere as water vapor. Water continually evaporates from Earth’s oceans, lakes, streams, and soil, but the majority of the water evaporates from the oceans. Condensation is the process of a gas or vapor changing into a liquid. In the water cycle, water vapor particles condense and from water droplets on dust particles. These water droplets form clouds, in which the droplets collide, stick together, and create larger, heavier droplets. These larger droplets fall from clouds as rain in a process called precipitation. Precipitation may also take the form of snow, sleet, or hail. When precipitation falls to the Earth one of two things will happen to it: 1. The water runs off the land and is either collected above ground surface in water sites such as a lake, river, or ocean, or 2. The water slowly seeps through the soil, or percolates through the soil, into aquifers and stored as groundwater. Aquifers are underground layers of rock that store water and allow the flow of groundwater. Most water precipitation is stored as groundwater. 7. What else is the water cycle called? hydrosphere cycle hydrology cycle biosphere cycle abiotic substance cycle 8. What is evaporation? when a solid changes into a liquid when a solid changes into a gas when a liquid changes into a solid when a liquid changes into gas 9. What provides the energy for liquid water to evaporate in the water cycle? the sun thermal vents heat from bodies heat from the core of Earth 10. Where does most of the water come from that evaporates in the water cycle? ponds lakes rivers oceans 8. What is condensation? when a solid changes into a liquid when a gas changes into a solid when a gas changes into a liquid when a liquid changes into gas 9. Complete the steps of precipitation forming by clicking on the table and choosing the correct description. Precipitation Process Description 1 Water vapor particles condense and from water droplets on dust particles 2 Water droplets form clouds, in which the droplets collide, stick together, and create larger, heavier droplets 3 Larger droplets fall from clouds as rain 10. Complete the following statement by clicking on the blank and choosing the correct word. When precipitation falls to the Earth one of two things will happen to it: 1. The water runs off the land and is either collected above ground as surface water in sites such as a lake, river, or ocean, or 2. The water slowly seeps through the soil, or percolates through the soil, into aquifers and stored as groundwater. Aquifers are underground layers of rock that store water and allow the flow of groundwater. Most water precipitation is stored as groundwater. 11. Matching Aquifer Underground layers of rock that store water and allow the flow of groundwater Condensation A gas or vapor changes into a liquid Evaporation A liquid changes into a gas or vapor Groundwater Water stored under the ground in aquifers Percolate The process of water slowly seeping through the soil Precipitation The process of water droplets from clouds falling to Earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail. Surface Water Above ground collections of water 12. Completion - complete the following statements by clicking on the word(s) from the word bank. Water stored under the ground in aquifers is called groundwater.Precipitation is the process of water droplets from clouds falling to Earth in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.The change of a liquid changing into a gas or a vapor is called evaporation.Surface water is above ground collections of water.The change of a gas or vapor changing into a liquid is called condensation.Aquifers are underground layers of rock that store water and allow the flow of groundwater.Percolation is the process of water slowly seeping through the soil. 13. Word Search To mark a word click its first letter then click its last. PRECIPITATION CONDENSATION PERCOLATION GROUNDWATER EVAPORATION AQUIFER