The Water Cycle for Kids | Learn all about the water cycle

Have you ever heard of the water cycle? Maybe you've heard the word evaporation or precipitation. These are stages in the water cycle! In The Water Cycle for Kids, you will learn all four stages of this process, and you may even discover that you've seen it in action many times! You will also learn about how important it is to conserve freshwater on the earth.

The water you drink may possibly be millions of years old! This is because the earth has a certain amount of water that moves around the earth in different states and phases. The first stage is evaporation. This occurs when the sun heats the water in oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water to point that it turns into gas, and that gas evaporates into the air. Transpiration is similar to evaporation and occurs when plant leaves release water as water vapor into the air.

Condensation is the third step. This is when the vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into a liquid. This is actually how a cloud forms! This is also the reason you see foggy mirrors after a hot shower. When clouds have too much water and get too heavy, it rains. When it rains, this is called precipitation, the final stage of the cycle. Then the whole cycle starts all over again!

We hope you and your student(s) enjoyed learning about the water cycle!