ShareThe Water Cycle - Moving On
Imagine that you are a drop of water.
- Where would you like to travel?
- As water moves through its “cycles” we find that it can be found anywhere.
- Think of all the places that water is found?
- Did you think of plants, animals, underground aquifers or icebergs?
- Hydrologists (people who study water) are always watching and studying water. They check for snow pack in the mountains and monitor the streams during spring run-off.
Fresh
or Salty
Where
in
is water salty found?
Where else could you find salty water? The
great Salt Lake is the saltiest lake in the world! Do you know why? Look at a map of
Utah
and list the rivers flowing in and out of the great Salt Lake. When the
salty water evaporates only the salt remains. If you wanted to travel
as a water molecule a good spot to begin would be here.
Move on!
As you evaporate from the
Great Salt Lake
you travel high into the sky and change into a gas. You soon form a cumulous cloud. The wind from the west blows you into the
Wasatch
Mountains
. It’s cold there. You fall from the sky in the form of snow
(precipitation.) There you rest until May. The sun finds you and you melt. You sink deep into the ground then bubble up into a mountain spring. Finish this story. Where else could you travel? Who or what
would drink from the spring or would you again evaporate? 
Use a map of Utah to find locations where you would like to go. Remember you can be different types of precipitation.
GO THERE!
Look at a map of an Asia. Choose a country. Write another story about
traveling as a water molecule but do not leave your Asian country. This time include the salty oceans.
