The Water Cycle

🌍Mission Brief #44

The water cycle shows how water moves on Earth.

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Connect the place to the people.

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Borders move. Mountains don't.

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🤯 Russia spans 11 time zones. You could leave on Monday and arrive on Tuesday without traveling for a day.

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Then & Now

🌍 Where things are still decides who gets what.

The water cycle shows how water moves on Earth. It starts when the sun warms water. This makes it turn into vapor, which is called evaporation. The vapor rises and cools, forming clouds. Then, it falls back to Earth as rain or snow.

Key Facts

The sun helps water turn into vapor.

Clouds are made from water vapor.

Water falls back as rain or snow.

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What do we call the process when water turns into vapor?

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Why this still matters

Every label on the food in your kitchen says where it traveled from.

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Pull up a map and find a country you've never heard of. Look up one fact.

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“If you could live anywhere on Earth, where would it be — and why?”

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