Where Does The Water Go?

Answer the following questions on a sheet of paper.

List at least three kinds of precipitation.
What happens to precipitation after it reaches the ground?
List at least two ways water is naturally stored (not by people).

ACTIVITY
Make a list of all the places that water goes once it reaches the ground.

Choose two of the following locations. Describe what happens to precipitation after it lands on the chosen location. Include a sketch or drawing with your description.

Mountain Top
Desert
Parking Lot
Swamp
River
Office Building Roof
House
Beach
Street
Lake
Glacier
Forest

Describe how your drawings connect to the picture above.

Click on a link to continue:

Water, A Never Ending Story (this module's first page)
The Water Cycle (this module's second page)
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Saturation
The Whole Water Cycle
Olympic Peninsula Rain Forest
Teacher's Reference Page