Changes

in Water

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 Changes in
Water

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 Solid
Precipitation
Snow is solid
precipitation.

Precipitation is water that falls from the sky.

Solid precipitation has its own shape.

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 Hail is solid
precipitation.

Sleet is solid
precipitation.

Tiny drops of ice are called sleet.

Big balls of ice are called hail.

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 Liquid
Precipitation

Water can fall as rain.

Rain is liquid precipitation.

It does not have its own shape.

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 a rainbow

The sun shines through rain.

This makes a rainbow.

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 How Water
Changes

Ice is a solid.

Water that gets cold enough freezes.

It changes to a solid.

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 Water is a liquid.

Ice that gets warm enough melts.

It changes to a liquid.

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 More
Changes

Water in gas form

is water vapor.

Water evaporates when it is heated.

It changes to a gas.

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 Water vapor
condenses on
a cold glass.

Water vapor condenses when cold.

It changes to drops of liquid.

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 The Water
Cycle
2 Water vapor condenses
and forms clouds.

1 Water evaporates.

Water on Earth evaporates.

It moves into the air.

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 3 Rain or snow falls.

4 The cycle continues.

Then it moves back again.

That is the water cycle.

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 Vocabulary
condense, p. 9
evaporate, p. 8
freeze, p. 6
hail, p. 3
melt, p. 7
precipitation, p. 2
sleet, p. 3
water cycle, p. 11

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 Think About the Reading

1. What questions do you have after

reading this book?
2. How can you find answers to these
questions?

Hands-On Activity

1. Put an ice cube in a bowl. Put the

bowl in a warm place. Look at it
later. Then look at it again the
next day.
2. Draw pictures to show what
happened.

School-Home Connection

Tell a family member about the water

cycle. Together, look for steps in the
water cycle for two weeks.

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