This 3-page 4th grade science worksheet gives students a water cycle diagram with six numbered pointer lines. They point to the sun, the evaporation arrows, a cloud, rain, a river on a mountain and the ocean. A word bank lists sun, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and collection. Page 2 has four short questions on evaporation, condensation, kinds of precipitation and where the river carries the water. Page 3 is the answer key.
“Label the main stages of the water cycle on a diagram.”
Page 1 asks for six labels, from the sun to collection in the ocean.
“Describe what happens at evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.”
Questions 1 to 4 on page 2 cover gas formation, cloud formation, kinds of precipitation and where the river ends.
A picture of a sun, an ocean, a cloud, rain and a river running down a mountain. Students write a word-bank word on each of six lines, one for each number.
Four questions with two answer lines each. They ask which stage turns liquid water into gas, what forms when water vapor cools, two kinds of precipitation, and where the river carries the water.
The six labels and the four answers. Question 3 accepts any two of rain, snow, sleet or hail.
Number 3
The key calls the cloud condensation. Some students want to write cloud, so ask what is happening inside it.
Trace the river
Have students follow the river from the mountain to the ocean with a finger and say runoff, then collection, aloud before they write.
Keep the diagram
Let students keep page 1 beside them for page 2. The four questions use the same words as the word bank.
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