The Water Cycle

🌍Mission Brief #14

The water cycle is how water moves around our planet.

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Connect the place to the people.

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Borders move. Mountains don't.

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🤯 Russia spans 11 time zones. You could leave on Monday and arrive on Tuesday without traveling for a day.

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Then & Now

🌍 The geography you'll learn is the same one your phone's GPS is using right now.

The water cycle is how water moves around our planet. It starts when the sun heats water in rivers and lakes. The water turns into vapor and goes into the sky. This vapor cools and turns back into water, forming clouds. Finally, it rains, and the cycle starts again!

Key Facts

The sun heats water to make vapor.

Vapor turns into clouds.

Rain is part of the water cycle.

Check Your Understanding

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What does the sun do in the water cycle?

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Why this still matters

Every label on the food in your kitchen says where it traveled from.

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Stretch Challenge

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Find where everything in your fridge came from this week.

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For the dinner table

“If you could live anywhere on Earth, where would it be — and why?”

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