Where does the water in clouds come from?

This is
CHANGES OF STATE
in
ACTION.

Checkout the explanation at Blithfield Field Study centre.
We hope you don't mind we pulled a screen grab to help with our teaching.

So any water can find its' way into clouds by a process called evaporation. Then it condenses, forms clouds and eventually falls as rain or snow and is constantly recycled.

In fact there is the same amount of water on the planet today as there was when it was formed 2 billion years ago.

 

 

Put another way by Kidzone

Check out their explanation of the Water Cycle

 

The Drinking Water Inspectorate provide another great explanation.

Download or Click - View Online

 

Thirstin's Water Cycle

A fantastic resource from the Envionmental Protection Agency in America. We hoped you don't mind we pulled a screen grab to help with our teaching.

 

 

Thanks to Earth Science Explorer for this resource.

A very big thankyou to
Marcus
from
Monument Charter School
for finding and sending us the following links.

Thanks to the Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum.

Click to go to the site and do the activities.

An excellent animation created by Heather Kroening and published by Bio-DTRL.

Thanks to NASA

Links to Water Cycle resources from
Grain Valley RV School District