Module 5 unit 4 reading--water cycle.pptVIP

* the water cycle 水循环 几百万年前恐龙的洗澡水，有可能进到你的肚子里！这是因为神奇的“水循环”在起作用啊！ WATER on earth today has been here for millions of years. Pure water has no taste, odor (气味), or color. Water can appear in three states or forms: solid (ice), liquid, or gas (vapor [蒸气]). Three states of water Solid water — ice is frozen (凝固的) water. When water freezes (凝结), its molecules move apart from each other, so ice is not as dense (密度大的) as water. This means that ice will be lighter than the same volume (体积) of water, and so ice will float in water. Water freezes at 0℃ , 32. Liquid water is wet and fluid (流体的). This is the form of water that we see everyday. We use liquid water in many ways, including washing and drinking. Water as a gas, or vapor, is always present in the air around us. When you boil water, some water will be gone: it changes to water vapor. As some of the water vapor cools, we see it as a small cloud called steam (水蒸气). The water vapor attaches (依附) to small bits of dust in the air. It forms raindrops in warm temperatures. In cold temperatures, it freezes and forms snow. Never-ending cycle Water is moving all the time on, above, and below the surface of the Earth. This is called the “water cycle”. The water cycle is truly a “cycle”, there is no beginning or end. Water can change states among liquid, vapor, and ice, at different places in the water cycle. Water becomes vapor, travels into the air and becomes part of a cloud, falls down to earth as rain or snow, and then becomes vapor. Because of the water cycle, water moves from the earth to the air and to the earth again. It changes from solid to liquid to gas, over and over again. *