Week 3

• Water cycle


  1. Sun heats up bodies of water

  2. Water turns to water vapor and rises up

  3. Evaporation

  4. Plants remove water through transpiration

  5. Animals and humans release water through respiration

  6. Water vapor turns into liquid water droplets

  7. Condensation

  8. Clouds become full of liquid water

  9. Precipitation as rain or snow

  10. Water goes to soil and absorbed by plants

  11. Water goes back to bodies of water
• Water cycle is very important to all living things
• Importance of water cycle


  • It is how water reaches plants, animals and us
  • It provides people, animals and plants with water
  • All life is dependent upon water
  • Water makes up 60 to 70 percent of all living matter
  • Humans cannot live without drinking water for more than a week
• About 97 percent of water in our surroundings is salty, thus only three percent of this water is fresh or portable
• The very small amount of fresh water is 67 lakh in the form of ice mainly found in Greenland and Antarctica
• The water cycle provides living things with a constant supply of fresh water
• The water cycle makes sure that water does not run out on the earth
• Without the water cycle, living things will not have enough fresh water to survive