What differences do you observe between the two circles?
Question 3
3.
When water evaporates, what happens to the molecules that make up the liquid water? Do they disappear?
Pre Reading Check
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Question 4
4.
New water forms on Earth every few years.
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Question 9
9.
What happened to the water in Cleopatra’s tears?
Question 10
10.
How can water be hard as a rock?
Question 11
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How can water be invisible?
Question 12
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What is evaporation?
Question 13
13.
When is the air humid?
Question 14
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What does condense mean?
Question 15
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When can you see your breath?
Question 16
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What are fog and clouds made of?
Question 17
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What is precipitation?
Question 18
18.
Where does water go after it rains?
Question 19
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Where does groundwater come from?
Question 20
20.
How does water in an iceberg become water in rain?
Pre Reading Check
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Question 21
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New water forms on Earth every few years.
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Question 26
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How can a puddle turn into a cloud?
Question 27
27.
How does water move around Earth?
Multiple Meaning Words: Drinking Cleopatra's Tears
Some words can mean more than one thing. For each word in the table:
Read the sentence from Drinking Cleopatra’s Tears that uses the word.
Read the two meanings the word can have.
Decide which meaning the word has in the sentence from the book and circle that meaning.
Question 28
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Did you know that water can be hard as rock?
The word hard means
Question 29
29.
Did you know that water can be hard as rock?
The word rock means
Question 30
30.
The drops of liquid water you see all over the grass condensed from water vapor in the air.
The word drops means
Question 31
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Condensation usually happens high off the ground, but every once in a while it gets cool enough near the ground for water vapor to condense, and fog is formed.
The word cool means
Synthesizing Ideas About Water on Earth
Read the question below.
In the first three boxes, record big ideas from each source that help you answer the question.
Connect ideas together to come up with a new understanding that answers the question.
Source: Drinking Cleopatra's Tears
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Question 32
32.
How can water from Cleopatra’s tears be on Earth today?
Source: Freshwater and Saltwater Drops Investigation
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Question 33
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In the Freshwater and Saltwater Drops Investigation, you saw what happened to a drop of freshwater and a drop of salt water when exposed to the air.
What did you notice in that investigation?
Source: Condensation Investigations (ice water in a cup, frozen empty cup, ice water in a cup in a bag)
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Question 34
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In all of the investigations that used cups of ice water and frozen cups, you saw what happened to the outside of a cold cup.
What did you learn from those investigations?
Question 5
5.
Dinosaurs may have drank the same water you bathe in.
Question 6
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If all the water vapor in the atmosphere condensed, it would cover the whole Earth.
Question 7
7.
Air is always dry.
Question 8
8.
Your body is made of water.
Question 22
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Dinosaurs may have drank the same water you bathe in.
Question 23
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If all the water vapor in the atmosphere condensed, it would cover the whole Earth.