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Our EarthshipNature Recyles Water in Many WaysHi! I'm Captain Bluegill. I want to tell you about the water I call home.
When the sun shines on water, whether it is on your clothes, on the street, or in a lake, the little pieces of water get warm and they begin to move faster. When they bump into each other, some of the heat (which makes them move faster) may be passed from one piece of water to another. If the little piece of water is close to the surface, and it is moving fast enough, it jumps clear away from the rest of the water. We say it evaporates. It can then go clear up into the air. When it is up in the air, it can move from one place to another. As the little water piece goes up into the air, it gets colder. When the little pieces of water bump into each other, they give away some of their energy and stick together to form a cloud. Clouds are made up of little drops of water, or if it is cold enough, little crystals of ice. If these little pieces of water keep bumping together, they form big drops and fall to the earth as rain, hail, sleet or snow.
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Did
you ever wonder where water comes from, where it goes, and how it gets
there? Or why the clouds seem to have plenty of water? Our earth has a
very wonderful system of reusing (recycling) the water that we have. When
clouds drop their water on the earth, some of it falls on the ground,
some falls on lakes or rivers, or some falls on the oceans. More than
half of the earth is covered by water. Let me tell you how nature uses
water over and over again.