Water+Cycle

The Exciting Water Cycle

Water has some unique properties. It can be a solid, liquid, or gas. It goes through each stage throughout the water cycle. For example, (starting at the liquid stage,) lakes, oceans, and seas are in liquid form. When the sun heats liquid water, it becomes steam (its gaseous form). The steam rises because it's less dense than air until it condenses into its liquid form, turning into a cloud. When the cloud has gathered too much water, it precipitates either rain, snow, sleet, or freezing rain. These can be either in solid or liquid form. The precipitation flows down runoffs into pools of water. The water cycle continues. 