The Water Cycle & Climate
📋 What it is
Water cycles by evaporating, condensing into clouds, and falling as rain — driving weather worldwide.
🗣️ Coach says
The Sun heats water so it evaporates, rises, cools into clouds (condensation), and falls back as rain or snow (precipitation). This endless cycle moves heat and water around the globe — it’s the engine behind rivers, rain, and much of Earth’s climate.
🧠 Memory hook
Evaporate → condense → precipitate → repeat. The water cycle drives weather.
😂 Giggle
Why was the food chain so dramatic?
Because someone was always eating someone else!
😲 Whoa!
A single water molecule spends, on average, only about 9 days in the air before falling back to Earth — the cycle is faster than it looks.
✅ Quick check: Where does the water in rain come from originally?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
From evaporation — the Sun heats oceans and lakes, water rises as vapour, condenses into clouds, and falls as rain.
The water cycle recycles water via evaporation and condensation.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Breathe on a cold window. The fog is condensation — water vapour cooling into droplets, just like a cloud forming.