Let's solve this step-by-step using the provided words and understanding the
water cycle.
Step 1: Understand the Water Cycle
The water cycle includes these main stages:
1.
Evaporation: Liquid water turns into water vapor (gas) due to heat from the sun.
2.
Condensation: Water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets, forming clouds.
3.
Precipitation: When clouds get heavy, water falls as rain or snow.
4.
Collection: Water returns to oceans, rivers, lakes, etc., and the cycle repeats.
Now, let’s fill in the blanks using the words from the box:
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Words available (each used once):
- snow
- Precipitation
- Condensation
- over
- repeats
- water vapour
- Evaporation
- rain
- water drops
- clouds
- heavy
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Sentence 1:
> 1. ____________ - Liquid water in oceans, rivers, and lakes evaporate to become ____________ (gas).
- The process where liquid water turns into gas is
Evaporation.
- The gas form of water is
water vapour.
✔ So:
- First blank:
Evaporation
- Second blank:
water vapour
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Sentence 2:
> 2. ____________ - When the water vapour reaches a point in the sky where it is cold enough, it condenses to form ____________. These water drops join together to form ____________.
- The process of turning vapor into liquid droplets is
Condensation.
- The tiny droplets formed are
water drops.
- These droplets gather to form
clouds.
✔ So:
- First blank:
Condensation
- Second blank:
water drops
- Third blank:
clouds
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Sentence 3:
> 3. ____________ - As more water drops join the cloud, the cloud becomes ____________. When the cloud is heavy enough, the water drops will precipitate (fall) back to earth as ____________ or ____________.
- This describes
Precipitation.
- The cloud becomes
heavy.
- It falls as
rain or
snow.
✔ So:
- First blank:
Precipitation
- Second blank:
heavy
- Third blank:
rain
- Fourth blank:
snow
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Sentence 4:
> 4. This cycle ____________ itself over and ____________ again.
- The cycle
repeats itself.
- "Over and over" is a common phrase — so we use
repeats and
over.
✔ So:
- First blank:
repeats
- Second blank:
over
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Final Answer:
1.
Evaporation - Liquid water in oceans, rivers, and lakes evaporate to become
water vapour (gas).
2.
Condensation - When the water vapour reaches a point in the sky where it is cold enough, it condenses to form
water drops. These water drops join together to form
clouds.
3.
Precipitation - As more water drops join the cloud, the cloud becomes
heavy. When the cloud is heavy enough, the water drops will precipitate (fall) back to earth as
rain or
snow.
4. This cycle
repeats itself over and
over again.
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✔ All words used exactly once:
- snow
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- Precipitation
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- Condensation
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- over
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- repeats
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- water vapour
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- Evaporation
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- rain
✔
- water drops
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- clouds
✔
- heavy
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✔️ Complete and correct!
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