The Water Cycle
Study Guide
Web Quest
Name: ________________________
Date:____________
Could the water in your drinking glass be the same water a dinosaur drank?
Explain:
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/cycle.htm
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
How much of the earth’s surface is covered by water?
http://www.miamisci.org/ecolinks/watercycle.html
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/index.htm
What is the water cycle?
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/WEATHER/watercycle.html
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/cycle.htm
What is evaporation?
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/WEATHER/watercycle.html
What is transpiration?
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/concepts.htm
What makes the water evaporate from the oceans, rivers and lakes?
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/WEATHER/watercycle.html
What is condensation?
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/WEATHER/watercycle.html
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/concepts.htm
What is precipitation?
http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/WEATHER/watercycle.html
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/concepts.htm
What is surface runoff?
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/concepts.htm
Using the terms "evaporation", "condensation", and "precipitation",
explain the water cycle in your own words.
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/cycle.htm
What factor is most important in determining whether water is a
solid, liquid, or gas?
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/cycle.htm
Is the amount of water on Earth always changing or is it a constant
amount?
http://www.mbgnet.net/fresh/cycle/cycle.htm