The Water Cycle

Question 1

What is the water transfer?

Answer 1

The constant movement of water from one water store to another, from liquid to gas to solid (ice and snow) and back to liquid again.

Question 2

Where is water mostly stored?

Answer 2

97% of water is in the oceans.
The rest is fresh water in lakes, glaciers, polar ice.
Only 0.35% is found in the atmosphere.

Question 3

The water in the atmosphere gives different types of weather. Give some examples?

Answer 3

Clouds
Rain
Snow
Hail
Fog

Question 4

Explain the water cycle

Answer 4

1. Water starts in the ocean
2. The sun warms the water and turns the top layer into a gas - evaporation
3. The vapour rises and cools. It condenses, the water droplets gather together and form clouds.
4. Eventually the clouds gather so much that they are too heavy and water is released as precipitation.
5. The water falls on land or sea. If it falls on land it finds its way back to the sea in glaciers, rivers or through soil and rocks underground as groundwater.
6. The process repeats - a continuous cycle.