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Climate Detectives Kids Activities 2023-2024

Activity: The water cycle

9o ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟ ΚΑΛΑΜΑΡΙΑΣ   ΤΗΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΙ   Greece

Describe what your team has done and tell us more about what your team has learnt:

Water is essential to life on Earth. In its three phases (solid, liquid, and gas), water ties together the major parts of the Earth’s climate system — air, clouds, the ocean, lakes, vegetation.
The water cycle shows the continuous movement of water within the Earth and atmosphere. It is a complex system that includes many different processes. Liquid water evaporates into water vapor, condenses to form clouds, and precipitates back to earth in the form of rain and snow. Water in different phases moves through the atmosphere (transportation). Liquid water flows across land (runoff), into the ground (infiltration and percolation), and through the ground (groundwater). Groundwater moves into plants (plant uptake) and evaporates from plants into the atmosphere (transpiration). Solid ice and snow can turn directly into gas (sublimation). The opposite can also take place when water vapor becomes solid (deposition).

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