Water-Cycle Pages

Water-cycle home page

Summary explanations:

Images (screen):

Images (print):

Opinion survey:

Where does the water cycle begin?

Teachers:

Put the correct water-cycle components in the proper place

Diagram of the natural water cycle

Here's a diagram of the natural water cycle ... with the words removed. An alphabetical list of the water-cycle terms is listed below the diagram. See if you can properly place the terms in the correct location (letter) on the diagram.

When you're done, view the complete water-cycle diagram.
Here is a page-size version of the diagram below for you to print out.

Diagram of the water cycle without the terms.

Water-cycle terms

You can print this page and write in the letter in the boxes next to the water-cycle terms and then check to see if you are correct.

[ ] Condensation	[ ] Evaporation
[ ] Evapotranspiration	[ ] Freshwater storage
[ ] Groundwater discharge	[ ] Groundwater storage
[ ] Infiltration	[ ] Precipitation
[ ] Snowmelt runoff to streams	[ ] Spring
[ ] Streamflow	[ ] Sublimation
[ ] Surface runoff	[ ] Water storage in the atmosphere
[ ] Water storage in ice and snow	[ ] Water storage in oceans
[ ] Desublimation	[ ] Plant uptake