*The Main Parts of the Water Cycle Include

Click on the water drop to go to a webpage. Read the information on the webpage to answer the questions. Number your paper 1-20 and fill in the answers on your paper.

*The main parts of the water cycle include 1.______2.______3.______4.______5.______

*People 6.______and plants 7.______. Transpiration is the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves. Transpiration gives evaporation a bit of a hand in getting the water vapor back up into the air.

*Precipitation occurs when so much water vapor condenses, that the sky cannot hold any more. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of 8.______, 9.______, 10.______or 11.______.

*Ground water might be used by 12.______and 13.______. *The amount of water is about the same now as when dinosaurs were on the earth 14. true or false?

*The water cycle is also called the 15. ______.

*Why are oceans so salty?

The water in the oceans only leaves by evaporating (and the freezing of polar ice), but the salt remains dissolved in the ocean - it does not 16.______.

*About 17. ______% of all the Earth's water is in a form useable to humans and land animals. *18. ______is the primary factor of evaporation.

*19______is the opposite of evaporation.

*In large forests, an 20.______amount of water will transpire through leaves.