Today you are going to learn about the water cycle. Please read each question carefully and write your answers neatly on your worksheet.

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1. What is another name for the water cycle?

2. What is the definition of water cycle?

3. What are the 4 parts of the water cycle?

   a.

   b.

   c.   

   d.

4. During evaporation, what heats up the water to cause it to leave a river, lake or ocean?

5. What is transpiration? And what do people do that is the same as transpiration?

6. What happens during condensation?

7. When does precipitation happen?

8. Name at least 3 different types of precipitation?

9. When precipitation comes back to the earth, where is it collected?

10. Look at the diagram of the water cycle. Draw your own picture of the water cycle and label the 4 main parts.