Water and the Water Cycle
Complete all questions and put all information in your notebook, page 11.
Waterfalls - Waterfalls are beautiful. Read about waterfalls at How Waterfalls Work
Check out the (1) Nevada Waterfall Guide and (2) Michele's Waterfall Page. Do we have any
waterfalls in Nevada? Where? Draw a picture showing how a waterfall works (with color).
Locate your Watershed. Play the Watershed Game to learn more about the watershed. Use the
Nevada Watershed page to locate your watershed. Where does your water come from?
Compare your watershed to people who live in other states or provinces.
Find Freshwater. Fresh water is a worldwide issue. Use The World's Water to locate statistics about
water around the world. Explore Freshwater & Freshwater 2 for maps, graphs, and charts showing
freshwater availability worldwide. Select an area of the world and analyze concerns about their
water. Compare water issues with the area where you live. (Google would be a good resource
for this compare and contrast)
Water: Surface Area and Properties – Use the link to answer the following questions in your
notebook. Water: Surface Area & Properties
1. How much of the Earth is covered by water?
2. What are the percentages of the Earth’s water locations? Make a pie graph showing
the Earth’s water (with color).
3. Water Properties –List and describe the properties of water.
Take a Water Cycle Quiz. Water Cycle Quiz Record your score and then record the answers in
constructed response form in your notebook.
Write and Illustrate a Pamphlet:
1. Make your pamphlet by folding a piece of unlined paper into 3 vertical
sections of the same size.
2. After folding up your pamphlet, make a cover with an appropriate title and
picture.
3. Open your pamphlet to show your three sections. Section One: Draw and
describe the Water Cycle (making sure to include: evaporation,
condensation, and precipitation). Section Two: List, Draw and Describe
the Water Properties. Section Three: Draw, Label, and Describe the
Watershed for Las Vegas.
4. On the back section of your pamphlet; Draw, Label and Describe where all
the World's Water is Located.
5. Color your pamphlet with colored pencils, markers, or crayons.
Atmosphere
Use the links to answer the questions in your notebook (Constructed Response, of course!).
Atmosphere Diagram
Cozy Blanket Around Earth
1. Which four gases are most common in Earth's atmosphere? Give the percentages. Make a pie graph
(with color).
2. What are the four main layers of the atmosphere?
3. Which layer is closest to space?
4. Which is the hottest layer?
5. Which is the coldest layer?
6. Why do you think the layers are often called a "Cozy Blanket Around Earth."
Seasons
Season Information
The Seasons Animation
7. If the Earth is to the right of the Sun picture, which season are we (in the northern hemisphere)
having?
8. The Earth is titled on its axis. At what angle is it tilted?
9. How long does it take for Earth to orbit around the Sun?
10. When the Earth orbits the Sun, is that rotation or revolution?
11. When are the solstices and equinoxes each year?
12. Name one thing that you enjoy doing outside during each of the equinoxes and solstices.
Exosphere
13. What and where is the exosphere?
Solstices and Equinoxes
14. When was the Spring Equinox in 2000? (date and time)
15. When will the Summer Solstice be in 2018 (date and time)
Greenhouse Effect
20. What is the Greenhouse Effect (describe how it works)?
Greenhouse Gases
21. What are the four main greenhouse gases?
Atmosphere Quiz
22. Take the quiz three times. Record your scores in your notebook.
When all the questions are answered in your notebook, create an eight layer flip book for the layers of
the atmosphere, seasons, exosphere, solstices /equinoxes, and greenhouse gases/effects.