1. Water travels in a cycle yes it
does.

2. The water cycle is driven by the
sun
• Water is always
moving
• Evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation
• transpiration

3. Evaporation
• Heat causes liquid
water to turn into a gas
• everyday tons of water
evaporates from
oceans, lakes, rivers,
& moist soil
• This warm gas rises

4. Condensation
• As water vapor cools
it turns from a gas to a
liquid
• when a large amount
of water vapor
condenses on dust
particles, a cloud
forms

5. Types of condensation
• Humidity
• dew
• frost
• fog

6. Precipitation
• Water falling back to
Earth
• when water in the
clouds gets to heavy,
then gravity goes to
work

7. Types of precipitation
• Rain
• sleet
• snow
• hail
• drizzle
• dew

8. Runoff
• After precipitation,
water that runs back
into a river, lake, or
ocean

9. Groundwater
• Some rain soaks into
the soil forming
pockets underground
• eventually most of this
returns to a larger
body of water

10. Transpiration
• Loss of water vapor
from plants
• Evaporates out
through the leaves

11. How does this affect weather?

12. ???????????????
• What causes evaporation?
• Where on Earth does evaporation occur?
• What causes condensation?
• How do mountain ranges affect the water
cycle?
• How does temperature affect precipitation?