The water cycle worksheet
Name the process in each example. Show where water moves or changes state in your diagram.
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Worked example · Why does a puddle shrink?
A puddle gets smaller in the afternoon sun. Where can some of the water go?
Some liquid water changes into water vapour and enters the air.
This change is called evaporation.
Practice questions
- Wet clothes dry in the sun. Which process changes water on the clothes into vapour?
- Water vapour cools and forms tiny liquid droplets. Name this change.
- Name the stage when drops fall from clouds as rain.
- Rainwater gathers in a pond. Which stage of the cycle does this show?
- Droplets form on the outside of a cold steel tumbler. Where did that water come from?
- Draw a simple water cycle from a pond to clouds and back again. Label four stages.