Click on http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/cycle/cycle.htm. Answer the questions below in your science notebook. Please include the questions.
1. Define water cycle.
2. What fraction of the earth's surface
is covered in water?
3. What percentage of all the Earth's
water is in a form that humans and
animals can
use?
Click on http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/cycle/concepts.htm. Answer the questions below in your science notebook. Please include the questions.
4. What is evaporation?
5. Why is evaporated water so clean?
6. What is the opposite of condensation?
7. When does precipitation occur?
Click on http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/cycle/cycle.htm. Answer the questions below in your science notebook. Please include the questions.
8. Using the terms evaporation, condensation,
and
precipitation, explain the
water cycle
in your own words.
9. What factor is most important in
determining whether water is a solid,
liquid, or
gas?
10. Is the amount of water on Earth always
changing, or is it a constant?
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