The Great Water Cycle
Put the stages of the water cycle in order.
Setting up the bench…
What this lesson covers
Why it matters
The sun lifts water from the sea as invisible vapour; high up it cools into clouds, falls as rain, and flows back to the sea — the same water, going round forever.
Predict first
What lifts water from the sea into the sky to start the water cycle?
The water cycle: the sun evaporates water → vapour rises and condenses into clouds → it falls as precipitation (rain/snow) → it collects in rivers and seas, and the cycle repeats.
- The sun's heat evaporates it — correct
- The wind blows the sea upward
- Fish splash it into the air
What you do
Put the stages of the water cycle in order, starting from the sun heating the sea.
Check yourself
Clouds form by…
Rising vapour cools and condenses into the droplets that make clouds.
In the water cycle, the water is…
The same water keeps changing state and moving — it is conserved.
- condensation of water vapour into tiny droplets — correct
- evaporation of the sea
- freezing of rivers
- recycled again and again — never lost — correct
- created fresh each time it rains
- destroyed when it evaporates