Read a Name
Diagram
What is the water cycle?
The arrows in the diagram form a circle. This helps to
show that a cycle is taking place.
The Water Cycle
Water Condenses
Water vapor rises and
cools. The water vapor
changes into liquid
water drops. The drops
form clouds.
Water Evaporates
The Sun’s energy heats
water in lakes, rivers,
streams, oceans, and
on land. The water
changes from a liquid
into water vapor, a gas.
Answer the questions about the diagram.
1. What causes water to evaporate?
2. What happens to water after it evaporates?
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Water Falls
When enough water has
condensed in clouds,
the water falls to Earth
as precipitation. It may
fall as rain, snow, sleet,
or hail.
Water Flows
Some precipitation flows
downhill into lakes, rivers,
and oceans. Some falls
right into these bodies of
water. Some soaks into
the land and becomes
groundwater.
1. The heat
from sunlight
evaporates water.
2. Water condenses
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and forms clouds.
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The Water Cycle
 Name Date Read a
Photo

What is climate?
The photographs show four places with different
climates. Read the captions to learn about different kinds
of climates.

Different Climates
Chicago can be hot
The Sonoran Desert or cold, dry or wet.
is hot and dry.

Antarctica is Rio de Janeiro

cold and dry. is hot and wet.

Answer the questions about the photographs. 1. Both of the climates

are hot, but the
1. How are the climates of the Sonoran Desert and Sonoran Desert
is dry, and Rio de
Rio de Janeiro similar? How are they different? Janeiro is wet.
2. Chicago’s climate
changes the most.
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2. Which place has a climate where the weather

changes the most?

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