EARTH ROCKS!

123 2012 AIMS Education Foundation

Students will:
Checking on the Water Cycle
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build and observe a closed water cycle
system, and
identify the processes of the water cycle.
What are the processes
of the water cycle?
Key Question
Learning Goals
EARTH ROCKS! 124 2012 AIMS Education Foundation
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1. Use your scissors to cut 5 centimeters of
the top of your bottle.
2. Check to see that a 9-oz cup will sit in the
hole. If it doesnt, you may need to cut
some more from the top of your bottle. Be
careful; you dont want the cup to fall into
the bottle.
3. Add hot liquid to the bottom of your
bottle.
4. Fill your 9-ounce cup half full of ice and set
it in the hole at the top of the bottle.
5. Write down the time at which your water
cycle bottle was set up.
6. Watch carefully. Write down the time when
you see moisture collect on the bottom of
the cup. How long did this take?
7. When did you see drops of water fall back
to the bottom of the bottle?
8. Illustrate what happened on the picture.
Label the processes of evaporation,
condensation, precipitation, and
accumulation.
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Checking on the Water Cycle
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1. What do you think will happen
to the water in the bottle?
2. How could you tell that water
had evaporated?
Connecting Learning
3. Can you see evaporation? Explain.
4. What are the processes involved in
the water cycle?
5. How does the mini water cycle
demonstrate these processes?
6. What would happen if you left your
mini water cycle in a warm place for
one month?
7. What are you wondering now?