Weather, climate and the water cycle
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Write one sentence about today’s weather and one about your region’s climate.
Answers differ; the first is about today, the second about many years.
2
Draw the five steps of the water cycle as five boxes with arrows.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, runoff.
3
Try the damp cloth test and write which dried first.
The cloth in the sun, usually.
4
List four places where water is stored.
For example sea, lake, river, ice, soil.
5
Ask a grown-up how the weather in your town has changed since they were young.
Answers differ.