Extra Resources - if you need them

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cycle

This one is for elementary school kids but it is something you can read faster for a basic introduction:  http://www.kidzone.ws/water/

Task 1:  Write three sentences.  Tell me three things you remember from the paper worksheet on the water cycle.

Task 2:  Go to http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html and read the page. 

There is a big picture on the right in the middle of the page.  I put a copy to the right but the picture on this page just goes back to the US Geological survey where you just were.  The writing on the picture (at USGS, not here) is usually a link to a complete description – it tells you what the arrows nearby are there to show you but in better detail.  (You can tell you are over a link when you put the mouse arrow over the text and it turns to a pointing finger).  Read up on anything in the picture that you do not fully understand by clicking on the text that labels the nearby arrow.

Task 3:  There is a link entitled “Follow a Drop Of Water Through The Water Cycle.”  Go there from that page or just from this link here.  Follow a drop of water through the water cycle.  Rewrite the description in your own words.

Task 4:  OK.  Now use Google to find out what all these are if you do not know them.  They will be on a short quiz at the end of class today or maybe tomorrow.

Divide.  In the sense that refers to water basins.

Drainage Basin

Geyser

Porous

Reservoir (It does at least three things)

Sinkhole (And how a sinkhole forms)

Spring (The kind water comes from in the desert or the mountains)

Tributary

Water Table