The Water Cycle

Question 1

What is the water cycle

Answer 1

The water cycle is the complete journey that water makes in life. From one place to the other and from one state to the other.

Question 2

Draw the water cycle on my whiteboard.

Answer 2

Evaporation, transpiration,condensation , precipitation, Runoff and infiltration.

Question 3

What is another name for the water cycle

Answer 3

The hydrological cycle

The closed system

Question 4

Evaporation-stage 1

Answer 4

The process by which water is changed into water vapour.

How It Happens:
Water is heated usually by the sun beginning the process.

Question 5

Transpiration- stage 2

Answer 5

The process by which the water absorbed by plants passes into the atmosphere from the plant surface, mainly from the leaves.

Question 6

Condensation- stage 3

Answer 6

The changing of water vapour into droplets of liquid water in the form of clouds, dew or fog.

Question 7

Precipitation-stage 4

Answer 7

Any or all of the forms of water whether liquid or solid that fall from clouds and reach the ground.

Examples: hail, snow, rain

Question 8

Infiltration- stage 5

Answer 8

The movement of water from the land surface into the soil.

Question 9

Run off- stage 5/6

Answer 9

The movement of surface water down slopes.