Introduction
The Water Cycle is the natural sequence through which water passes into the atmosphereas water vapor, precipitates to earth in liquid or solid form, andultimately returns to the atmosphere through evaporation.
Task
For the webquest, you will be learning about the process of the water cycle including, evaporation, condensation, precipatation, and runoff. Click on the hyperlinks in or under the question to lead you to the correct answer.
Please answer each of the questions by following the web pages on a separate sheet of paper.
Process
- What is evaporation?
- What is condensation?
- What is precipitation?
- What is collection?
- Is the water cycle continuous? https://www.fcwa.org/story_of_water/html/hydrocycle.htm
- What three forms can water take? Answer
- Watch this video. What does the sun do in the video?
- Why are the oceans so salty? Answer.
- Many air conditioners are actually _____ coolers, and work by taking advantage of this process.
- Why is stormwater runoff a problem? Answer.
Conclusion
Thank you for completing this webquest. Please turn it in to me by April 22, 2016.
4-4.1 Summarize the processes of the water cycle (including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff).