Year 4: The Water Cycle worksheet - Free Printable

Let’s go step by step to fill in the blanks using the words from the box:

Words available:
rivers, transpiration, evaporation, cycle, clouds, vapour, rainfall or precipitation

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First sentence:
> The water _______________ is the continual movement of water from ground to sea, to sky and back to the ground.

This is describing the whole process — that’s called the water cycle. So first blank = cycle

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Second part:
> The sun encourages the _______________ of water, which changes water from a liquid to gas called water _______________.

The sun heats water → turns it into gas → that’s evaporation.
The gas form of water is called vapour.
So second blank = evaporation, third blank = vapour

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Next:
> This gas cools and condenses in the sky to form _______________, from which _______________ may fall.

When water vapour cools, it forms clouds.
From clouds, water falls as rain, snow, etc. — that’s rainfall or precipitation.
So fourth blank = clouds, fifth blank = rainfall or precipitation

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Last part:
> Much water flows downhill overland in _______________. Some is absorbed into the ground. Some water is used by plants and they send water vapour back into the sky from their leaves: this process is called _______________.

Water flowing downhill over land usually goes into rivers.
Plants releasing water vapour from leaves = transpiration.
So sixth blank = rivers, seventh blank = transpiration

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Now let’s put all the answers in order:

1. cycle
2. evaporation
3. vapour
4. clouds
5. rainfall or precipitation
6. rivers
7. transpiration

All words are used exactly once? Let’s check the word list:

- rivers ✔ (used)
- transpiration ✔ (used)
- evaporation ✔ (used)
- cycle ✔ (used)
- clouds ✔ (used)
- vapour ✔ (used)
- rainfall or precipitation ✔ (used)

Perfect — all matched.

Final Answer:
cycle, evaporation, vapour, clouds, rainfall or precipitation, rivers, transpiration