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What Makes
Clouds and Rain?
First Grade
The Water Cycle
CLOUDS and RAIN
are part of the water cycle
What is a WATER CYCLE?
• In the water cycle, water moves from Earth to the air and back again.
The sun makes water warm. This causes the water to evaporate, or change to water
vapor. Water vapor is water in the air that you
can not see.
Water vapor meets cool air. The cool air causes the water vapor to condense, or change
into tiny water drops. The drops form clouds.
Water drops come together and get bigger and heavier. Then they
fall as rain or snow.
Some rain and snow falls into rivers, lakes,
and oceans. Some flows there from the
land.
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The cycle continues.5
CloudsClouds Weather
Some clouds look like puffy white cotton. They often mean nice weather
Other clouds are gray, flat, and low in the sky. The may bring rain or snow.
These clouds look like thin, white feathers. They often mean sunny weather.cirrus
stratus
cumulus
TIME TO REVIEW!
• What is a water cycle?
• What causes the water to evaporate?
• What does condense mean?
• What kind of clouds bring rain or snow?