Part 1: Check Your Understanding

I can describe how water moves through the water cycle.

Success criteria: I can identify evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.

1. What happens during evaporation?

Water vapor cools and forms clouds.

Liquid water changes into water vapor.

Water falls from clouds.

2. What causes water to evaporate from a pond?

Heat from the Sun

Moonlight

Wind only

3. What is condensation?

Water vapor cools and changes into tiny water droplets.

Water freezes into ice.

Water flows into a river.

4. Which is an example of precipitation?

Rain falling from a cloud

A puddle drying

A cloud forming

Part 2: Water Cycle Words and Explanations

5. Put these stages in the correct order by numbering them 1–4: collection, precipitation, condensation, evaporation.

_____ Collection _____ Precipitation _____ Condensation _____ Evaporation

6. Fill in the blank: Water that gathers in oceans, lakes, rivers, and puddles is called ____________________.

7. Explain how clouds form.

8. Why is the water cycle called a cycle?

Part 3: Show What You Know

9. Draw and label the water cycle. Include the Sun, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.

10. A Georgia sidewalk is wet in the morning but dry by afternoon. Which water-cycle process caused the sidewalk to dry? Explain your answer.

Support for diverse learners: Use the word bank: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, Sun, clouds. Students may explain answers with labeled drawings or sentence starters.

Extension: Describe how a drop of water could travel from the Atlantic Ocean to a Georgia lake. Include at least three water-cycle processes.

Georgia Water Cycle Worksheet

Georgia Water Cycle Worksheet

Part 1: Check Your Understanding

Part 2: Water Cycle Words and Explanations

Part 3: Show What You Know

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