The water cycle ppt
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The water cycle has four main stages: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Evaporation occurs when the sun heats water, turning it into vapor or steam. Condensation happens when water vapor in the air cools and forms clouds. Precipitation is when clouds become too heavy and water falls back to earth as rain, snow, or hail. Finally, collection refers to water running into bodies of water or soaking into the ground to complete the cycle.
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- 1. The Water Cycle The four(4) stages in the Water Cycle are: Evaporation Condensation Precipitation Collection
- 3. Evaporation occurs when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air. Stage 1-Evaporation
- 4. Water vapor SUN Figure 2- Evaporation
- 5. Condensation occurs when water vapor or steam in the air gets cold and changes from a gas back into liquid, forming clouds. Stage 2- Condensation
- 7. Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow. Stage 3- Precipitation
- 9. This is when water that falls from the clouds as rain, snow, hail or sleet, collects in the oceans, rivers, lakes, streams. Most will soak into the ground and will collect as underground water. Stage 4- Collection
- 11. 3.Precipitation 2.Condensation Evaporation The 4 stages of the water cycle: Evaporation Condensation Precipitation Figure 6- The Complete Water Cycle 4.Collection