Students are provided with a diagram that shows some ways water moves in a water cycle. Students are required to explain what is happening in three places and explain how water that falls as snow might get to the sea.
Students use a diagram to answer questions about water reserves, the main difference between lake and sea water, and to explain how water in the ocean could end up falling as snow in the mountains.
Task: Match the parts of a water cycle to the parts represented in a model of the water cycle and compare how they are the same and different. Assessment focus: interpreting a model.
Task: Complete a diagram of part of the water cycle and answer a question about rain. Assessment focus: Question a) – the water cycle and conventions of diagrams; question b) – evaporation of a solution.