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Directions to use:
Water Cycle
Scavenger Hunt Activity
Purpose : At the end of this Scavenger hunt students will be able to learn
the information about Water Cycle and its Science with its vocabulary.
1. Print the Scavenger Hunt cards on card stock or brightly -colored
paper and cut them apart along the black lines.
2. Make copies of the Scavenger Hunt questions worksheet. Each
student needs a copy.
3. Place the Scavenger Hunt cards around your classroom where
students will be able to find them. You can put them on chairs, on the
computer keyboard, on the back of your classroom door, on the sides
of student desks, on the chalkboard or wherever you like.
4. Students have to search the room and find all of the sentence cards to
answer the questions. You can differentiate by having students work
alone or with a classmate.
Management tips:
1. You may want to make this a silent activity so students don't share
answers with each other.
2. You can have the kids work alone or with a classmate.
3. Don't be afraid to hide the facts in tough places. Kids think it's
more fun when they have to search around a little.
4. Have a plan for students who finish early. You may want to have an
assignment for them to complete when they're done or you may
have them help other students find fact cards.
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Fact Card #1 Fact Card #2
Water is an integral part of life 97% of the water on Earth is
on this planet. Means the salt water found in the oceans.
existence of water is essential for 3% of Earth's water is fresh
life on Earth. water.
Fact Card #3 Fact Card #4
The water cycle is a continuous Water Cycle includes various
cycle where water evaporates, processes such as,
condenses and precipitates and
again evaporates. Transpiration
condensation
Evaporation
precipitation
transpiration
Condensation
evaporation
Precipitation
inflitration
runoff Accumulation
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Fact Card #5 Fact Card #6
Transpiration is the evaporation Transpiration also cools plants
of water from plants into the air. and enables the flow of minerals
& nutrients from the roots.
Nutrients
Water lost
from leaf
surface by
transpiration
Water travels through
the plant
Minerals
Fact Card #7 Fact Card #8
The amount of water lost by a Solar energy drives evaporation
plant depends on its size along of water from the ocean.
with the surrounding light The evaporated water changes
intensity, temperature, humidity, from a liquid to water vapor, a
wind speed and soil water supply. gaseous form.
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Fact Card #9 Fact Card #10
Condensation: Evaporated water Accumulation is the collection
is warmed and rises into the air of precipitation into rivers, lakes
where eventually it cools and and oceans.
condenses to form clouds.
Here water vapors are associated
with particles present in air and
convert into cloud.
Fact Card #11 Fact Card #12
Precipitation: When clouds Some of the human actions can
become very heavy with impact on the water cycle such as
condensed water, the water is 1. Generating hydroelectricity
released in the form of rain, hail or 2. Irrigation
snow. 3. Deforestation
4. Greenhouse effect
5. Motor vehicle use
6. Animal farming etc
Generator
Total
head
Water Water
inlet duct
Turbine
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Fact Card #13 Fact Card #14
The word water usually refers to Inflitration : In this process, the
water in its liquid state. The solid rain water soaks into the ground,
state of water is known as ice while through the rock and underlying
the gaseous state of water is known rock layers.
as steam or water vapor.
Fact Card #15 Fact Card #16
Infiltration: The water flows from Ground water flow: Ground water
ground surface into the ground. slowly moves through the spaces and
Once infiltrated, the water becomes cracks between the soil particles and
go to the lower elevations. This
soil moisture or groundwater.
movement of the water underground
is called groundwater flow.
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Fact Card #17 Fact Card #18
Runoff: It is the movement of the Adding and extracting the heat
water to the oceans, mainly in the makes the water cycle work. If the
form of the rivers, lakes and heat is added to ice, it melts. If the
streams. heat is added to water, it
evaporates.
Liquid (Water)
Vapour-
Solid(Ice)
Clouds or
steam
Fact Card #19 Fact Card #20
Importance of the water cycle:
Humans use water for drinking,
respiration, perspiration and
elimination of wastes are all part of
this cycle.
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Name: ____________________________________
Questions Worksheet
Fact Card #1: Why is water called as an integral part of earth?
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Fact Card #2: How is water distributed on planet earth?
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Fact Card #3: What is water cycle?
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Fact Card #4: Write the main processes that form water cycle.
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Fact Card #5:What is Transpiration?
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Fact Card #6: What other processes occur during transpiration?
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Fact Card #7: List the factors which affect the loss of water in plants.
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Questions Worksheet
Fact Card #8: What is the role of solar energy?
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Fact Card #9: Explain the process of Condensation.
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Fact Card #10: What do you mean by Accumulation?
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Fact Card #11: Define Precipitation.
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Fact Card #12: What are the human actions which affect the water cycle?
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Fact Card #13: Differentiate Water, Ice and Water vapor.
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Fact Card #14: What does happen in Infiltration process?
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Questions Worksheet
Fact Card #15: Define ground water.
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Fact Card #16: Define groundwater flow?
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Fact Card #17: What is called Runoff in water cycle?
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Fact Card #18: Who brings the water cycle in action?
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Fact Card #19: What is the importance of water cycle on earth?
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